Perpendicular As I

"As one re-reads Marjorie's poems, which have airy beginnings usually in breath, voice, intimation, they grow increasingly concrete until situations, relationships, and feelings are palpable and deeply moving."

"In extraordinary poems like 'The Truth of Lies, The Lies of Truth,' she tells of her father's breath and the wind and how they whip 'through my eyes,/my mouth, carve truth and lie/on the same stone,/carry them from Sinai triumphant.' And Marjorie Maddox's truths and her lies are triumphant indeed."

"What a range of richness we find in the poems of Marjorie Maddox. New worlds unfold in the narratives and implied narratives of these lyrics. We are left with a sense of uprightness and aspiration, a memorable voice, and of our own worlds, and selves surprised, deepened, and lifted toward a larger meaning."