Whirr & Click

by Micheline Maylor

Micheline Maylor s many-textured poems explore the liminal space where finite life and infinite time expand and contract into one another. In a duet of contrasts, memory, coming of age, danger, the erotic, and love twine into elegy and wonder. Time plays a featuring role and acts to freeze moments exactly as they arrive and simultaneously stretches experience into ungraspable infinity.

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2013

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Apparently, I take poetry collections slowly. This collection was well-written, but the final elegy is what will stick with me. Maylor captures that painful part of a loved one’s dying where they can leave this earth and we don’t even realize it. That we can be talking about grammar, of all things, while our best friend is dying.

“...while I am handing out chocolate hearts in the hallway
at work
talking about misplaced modifiers
with the living.”

[Vina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this poetry collection and in it especially "Starfish". There are so many poems that encouraged me to take notes and reread several times out of passion for the words and feelings.

[Courtney Bates-Hardy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful book. I started folding over the corner of every poem I liked and then realized at the end that I had folded over most of the book.