{"id":1438,"date":"2018-03-24T15:38:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T15:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:05:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:05:28","slug":"mst-alumna-maya-popas-you-always-wished-the-animals-would-leave-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"MSt alumna Maya Popa’s “You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave” published"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MSt alumna Maya Popa’s poetry collection You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave <\/em> has been published by New Michigan Press<\/p>\n

“This is a work of seething precision. In these poems, hope is a meticulous, meditative state\u2014a method of forensic searching and study that is carried with great care across generations. By stitching her raging images together with stillness and poise, Popa asks us to step back from our panic and look: “peeling back the hair, that quiet, necessary artifice, \/ to reveal a nesting doll of impulses.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

\u2014Caroline Bird<\/p>\n

“In Maya Catherine Popa’s You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave, feathers are unfulfilled parables, a hen’s eggs turn a vicious red, and a super moon “blooms a tyranny of flowers.” A helix of histories lies threaded to both the present day and the various magics of night. These poems are smart and lush, and at the end of each of them my heart, mind, and ear argue over which was lavished with the most pleasure. I am enchanted by this book, in its thrall, its bright gravity, its terribilit\u00e1.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

\u2014Traci Brimhall<\/p>\n
Buy the collection from\u00a0 http:\/\/www.thediagram.com\/nmp\/#popa <\/a><\/div>\n
or Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n
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MSt alumna Maya Popa’s poetry collection You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave has been published by New Michigan Press “This is a work of seething precision. In these poems, hope is a meticulous, meditative state\u2014a method of forensic searching and study that is carried with great care across generations. 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