Meteor

by C.M. Mayo

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award "The narrative poems of Meteor are both funny and thoughtful, turning ordinary situations on their heads and capturing strange, surprising scenes."- -Foreword Clarion Review , Feb. 2019 "...Mayo's best work--perfect words without artifice; characters and situations made permanent; a triumph of language as a natural art ...."--Grace Cavalieri, The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress "C.M. Mayo creates magic, in poems that transform the ordinary into something more marvelous and strange...."--Kim Roberts, author of A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.

106 pages, Paperback

Published March 25, 2019

About the author

C.M. Mayo is the author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire , as well as the widely-lauded travel memoir, Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico , and Sky Over El Nido , which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the editor of Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion , which was published by Whereabouts Press in March 2006.

Reviews

[Tasha]

The final poem is amazing. Strange and wonderful.