Advantages of Believing by M.B. McLatchey

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Crafted and assembled nearly forty years ago, the verses in this collection chronicle an earlier time in the author’s life as well as an earlier – and in some ways, foundational – poetic. A poetic, as E.E. Cummings suggests, that is more a way of seeing things than saying things. While the settings for the poems shift between continents – America, England, and France – the perspective, the way of seeing things, is undeniably that of the foreigner, the tourist, the disoriented – and yet somehow stewarded – young scholar.

 

Published here for the first time as part of the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition, these poems hold true to Yeats’ observation that a poet’s life is measured out, inevitably, in verses. Whatever merit the poems present reflects the good guidance of my former teacher and poet, Lawrence Raab.

–M. B. McLatchey
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McLatchey has a real sense of the exuberance and playfulness of language … .This is not to deny the essential seriousness of some of her poems, but to praise them first as poetry, as investigations in the medium.
–Lawrence Raab, author of The History of Forgetting

 

 

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Advantages of Believing

by M.B. McLatchey

$14.49, paper

A widely published poet with an extensive background in literature, philosophy, and ancient and modern languages, M.B. McLatchey has been recognized with many literary awards including the 2011 American Poet Prize; the Annie Finch Poetry Prize; the 2013 May Swenson Poetry Award for her full-length collection, The Lame God, and the 2014 FLP Chapbook Prize by Finishing Line Press for her poetry collection Advantages of Believing. She is also author of the Humanities Reader Primary Sources: The Great Works of Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle Ages, and a forthcoming educational memoir, Beginner’s Mind. She holds graduate degrees in Comparative Literature and Languages and in Teaching from Harvard University and Brown University, as well as the MFA from Goddard College. Currently, she is Associate Professor of Humanities at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is Poet Laureate of Florida’s Volusia County.

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