Light and Clay: New and Selected Poems” (MadHat Press) is the 19th book of poetry by Creative Writing Professor Maxine Chernoff.
“In Maxine Chernoff’s new collection of excellent earlier and brilliant melodic new poems, beautiful staccato images follow one another in short lines that dance down the page in a magical stream,” Clarence Major said. “The poems are alive with surreal vigor, and surprises abound. In their formality and artfulness of design, they are also pleasantly unpredictable. The natural world fascinates Chernoff (birds, a leaf, a raindrop), and her insight into a wide range of other subjects is always rendered with the same lyrical intensity and poignancy she brings to the natural world.”
Next fall MadHat Press will publish a book of essays on Chernoff’s work.
