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"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.
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Meteor
"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.
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"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.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940161505243
Publisher: Gival Press
Publication date: 02/07/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 19 MB
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About the Author

C.M. Mayo has published poetry in literary magazines for many years, among them, Beltway Quarterly, Bordersenses, Gargoyle, Rio Grande Review, St Ann’s Review, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Southwest Review, and in numerous anthologies including those edited by Robert L. Giron, Poetic Voices Without Borders and Poetic Voices Without Borders 2. Mayo’s works of fiction include the novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, a Library Journal Best Book and the short story collection Sky Over El Nido, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award; her nonfiction books include Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madeo and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual; and Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico. She is also a noted translator of contemporary Mexican poetry and fiction, and is the editor of Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion. A native of El Paso, Texas, she was raised in California, educated at the University of Chicago, and has been a long-time resident of Mexico City. In 2017 she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. Visit her website: www.cmmayo.com
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