Madonna Magdalene

by Kim Garcia

A book of poems

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Kim Garcia is the author of The Brighter House, winner of The White Pine Press Poetry Prize 2015, DRONE, winner of the 2015 Backwaters Prize, Tales of the Sisters, winner of the 2015 Sow’s Ear Chapbook Contest, and Madonna Magdalene, released by Turning Point Books in 2006. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Mississippi Review, Nimrod and Subtropics, and her work has been featured on The Writer’s Almanac. Recipient of the 2014 Lynda Hull Memorial Prize, an AWP Intro Writing Award, a Hambidge Fellowship and an Oregon Individual Artist Grant, Garcia teaches creative writing at Boston College.

Reviews

[a · Rating 5 out of 5]

favourite poetry book i've read. beautiful beautiful beautiful. would give more than five stars if i could.

[maddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

judas, desdemona, little women…MOST FAMOUS POEMS TO ME!!!!

[Mateo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the sort of book that makes you gnarl your toes at the thought that half-witted lumps of dead hamburger skin like Donald Trump are rich and famous while real artists toil in obscurity. If there were any justice in this world, the poets would be fabulously well off and Donald Trump would be selling hair plugs in Times Square.

These poems are so rich and lovely that even though they concern spiritual matters, they made an old, gas-encrusted atheist like myself sit up and take notice. Kim Garcia (not "Kim, Garcia," as Amazon has it) can really write. My copy is ruined by underlinings and marginal notes. I deserve to die.

I was going to quote some of my favorite lines, but they aren't as impressive in an online review like this.

One complaint, though: Either this book was printed upside-down, or I was holding it wrong.

Recommended.

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

I met Ms. Garcia at a reading in Charlotte-- her presence, her reading, not to mention her poems, blew me away. Afterwards, she gave me her "reading copy" of this book, saying that she could tell I was a really great listener. What a class act!

[Skye · Rating 1 out of 5]

Struck me as fake and performative.