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True, False, None of the Above (Poiema Poetry) Paperback – April 7, 2016
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- Print length104 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 7, 2016
- Dimensions6 x 0.26 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101498239226
- ISBN-13978-1498239226
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"True, False, None of the Above reads like a dinner party of literature, theology, and creative writing professors sitting around a large table surrounded by leather-bound books and old vinyls, sipping wine or whiskey, swapping stories that both bemoan and boast about students and the task of teaching and un-teaching. . . . [poems] invite the authors. . . to the table to share both their wisdom and cynicism about the world in all its comedy, tragedy, and fairy tale; to share in our human seeking after the question of truth; and to demonstrate engaging those questions and truths through writing -- and in turn, teaching and reading, and . . . everyday living."-excerpt of Renea Mckenzie's review in TTC
"In poem after poem, we see that we are all savagely in the middle of something, of our disordered lives, of a world which is tearing itself apart right in front of us. Marjorie Maddox does not flinch. She never has. She is a witness. And so may we be."--excerpt of David Craig's review in Windhover
"My classroom door was decorated with a line from Marjorie Maddox's poem, "On Defining Education"[from True, False]....I printed those words out in black ink and glued them on orange and green construction paper. I wanted my students to know I believed there ispossibility and beauty not only in who they could become, but who theyare right now..." excerpt of "This Is Only A Test" by Callie R. Feyen in The Cresset
"....This volume reminds us that poetry and religion were once fireside conversations, as daily as dishes, as sacred as children--and as necessary and unexpected as grace."--excerpt of radio review by Camille-Yvette Welsch on WPSU's BookMark
"The poems in Marjorie Maddox's True, False, None of the Above are amusingly erudite. Nearly all of them allude to other pieces of literature and other writers, from Dante to Hawthorne to Hopkins to Flannery O'Connor. While they take life seriously, they don't take themselves too seriously, and they accept the foibles that so often characterize human beings....Taking tradition seriously, the book also recognizes how relationships between writing of the past and present create a living text." -excerpt of review by Lynn Domina" "
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"In the preface to her book True, False, None of the Above, Maddox describes the experience of literature--whether reading, teaching, or creating it--as a 'confrontation with reality.' And her poems indeed confront a range of uneasy truths, from adultery and natural disasters to tooth extraction and raising teens. Maddox builds on the shared imagination of writers and readers, richly and deftly, to deepen and challenge our spirits." --Tania Runyan, author of Second Sky"
In some of these poems, Marjorie Maddox riffs on the poetry of other writers. Sometimes she sings like an angel, even about illness and death. She wields forms brilliantly, and she tells delicious stories about what goes on in her classroom. Everybody who relishes good poetry should buy this book. But if you're a teacher--or if you've ever sat in a classroom anywhere--True, False, None of the Above will make you laugh out loud." --Jeanne Murray Walker, Professor of English, University of Delaware, coeditor of Shadow & Light: Literature and the Life of Faith
In poem after poem, Marjorie Maddox creates a rich environment in which the best teaching (and she is always a teacher) takes place in dialogue, even though conversations are not always neatly resolved. But she also consistently and convincingly points to what we need: The real, the spiritual, the Real." --Jill Baumgaertner, author of What Cannot Be Fixed
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- Publisher : Cascade Books (April 7, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 104 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1498239226
- ISBN-13 : 978-1498239226
- Item Weight : 5.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.26 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,250,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #20,593 in American Poetry (Books)
- #27,955 in Literary Movements & Periods
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Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published 20 books, including In the Museum of My Daughter's Mind (Shanti Arts 2023), Begin with a Question (Paraclete 2022, Illumination Book Award winner, International Book Award winner, Catholic Media Associates Book Award, 3rd place); Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (Shant Arts), a collaboration with photographer Karen Elias; Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (reissued, Wipf & Stock 2018; finalist for the Philip McMath post-publication book award and finalist for the Brittingham Book Award); Wives' Tales (Seven Kitchens Press 2017); True, False, None of the Above (Poiema Poetry Series 2016 and Illumination Book Award Medalist); Local News from Someplace Else (Wipf & Stock 2013); Weeknights at the Cathedral (WordTech 2006); Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (2004 Yellowglen Prize); Perpendicular As I (1994 Sandstone Book Award); Perpendicular As I (ebook 2013); When The Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner); Body Parts (Anamnesis Press 1999); Ecclesia (Franciscan University Press 1997); How to Fit God into a Poem (1993 Painted Bride Chapbook Winner); and Nightrider to Edinburgh (1986 Amelia Chapbook Winner); the short story collection What She Was Saying (Fomite 2017); as well as over 650 poems, stories, and essays in such journals and anthologies as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, and Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion.
She is co-editor, with Jerry Wemple, of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State Press 2005) and the forthcoming Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (2025). She has four children's books, including two from WordSong: A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry and Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (both re-issued by Wipf and Stock), the YA book Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider Exercises (Kelsay Books), finalist for the International Book Award in the Education category; and the 2021 NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Notable Poetry Book for Children I'm Feeling Blue, Too! (illustrated by Philip Huber, Wipf and Stock).
Marjorie studied with A. R. Ammons, Robert Morgan, Phyllis Janowitz, and Ken McClane at Cornell, where she received the Sage Graduate Fellowship for her M.F.A. in poetry; with Sena Jeter Naslund at the University of Louisville, where she received an M.A. in English; and with Beatrice Batson and Harold Fickett at Wheaton College, where she received a B.A. in Literature.
Her numerous honors include Cornell University's Chasen Award, the 2000 Paumanok Poetry Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Seattle Review's Bentley Prize for Poetry, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, Pushcart Prize nominations in both poetry and fiction, and Lock Haven University's 2012 Honors Professor of the Year. She is the great great-niece of baseball legend Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson.
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This poem is taken from story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Old Testament book of Daniel. The three young men would not bow down to the golden image made by King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon and were thrown into the fiery furnace for their trouble.
The Fourth Man
His face is the greater flame
but doesn’t flicker. No furnace
fuels his glory. “Son of gods,”
the king calls out and cowers from the heat.
Sparks crown our heads.
We are un-singed and sing of seraphs,
genuflect before his servant,
ten times as golden as any man-made
Hades that can’t consume
the luminous, the purified,
the once-upon-a-time burning bush,
the evermore-ignited blaze of Yahweh.
One of my favorite poems in the collection is “The English Teacher Contemplates Suicide.” What begins as a serious issue becomes something else entirely, as the teacher first has to write a suicide note “worthy of publication,” catches herself mixing metaphors, starts doing some research to find some resources in the library only to discover them all checked out, and eventually returns to marking up student papers. The teacher inadvertently finds the spiritual in the mundane of her everyday experience.
Among other writing accomplishments, Maddox is the author of 10 previous poetry collections, including “Nightrider to Edinburgh” (1986), “Body Parts” (1999); “Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation” (2004); “Weeknights at the Cathedral” (2006); “Local News from Someplace Else” (2013); and “Perpendicular as I” (2013). She is the co-author of the anthology “Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania” (2005) and author of the children’s book, “Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems” (2009).
The director of Creative Writing and professor of English at Lock Haven University, she received a B.A. in literature from Wheaton College; an M.A. in English from the University of Louisville; and an M.F. A. in poetry from Cornell University. She’s also received numerous scholarships, prizes and other recognitions for her poetry.
The poems of “True, False, None of the Above” are unsettling. They are also richly rewarding. They challenge and ultimately overcome our conventional understandings of the spiritual.
Based on her reading, her teaching, and her embrace of a life of faith, Marjorie’s poetry examines important themes with clarity and an open-mindedness that spurs the heart on to more pondering.
To jump start your worship: Unlike God we tilt and turn, but “the Trinity’s still point throws no shadow.” “His face is the greater flame, but doesn’t flicker.”
To celebrate beauty in nature: Marjorie notices and then reports. As it happens, “lightening does, after all, saw through space — a jagged bread knife of sharp.”
Events from the evening news find their way into Marjorie’s poems along with whispered prayers over dirty dishes and clean laundry. It is a delight when poetic imagery illuminates daily tasks and decisions — even the generational do-si-do of storing people’s stuff and then throwing it away to make room for new memories in “this world of want.” It is a blessing to find images from an ancient Book reconfigured so that this time there is no favoritism — both Jacob and Esau have received a poem. And on a perfect summer afternoon, it’s pure bliss to open a book, to read it slowly enough to savor images, and then just to “go wherever the poem takes us.”
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