Pools of June

What are pools of June? Pools are poems. June is a month, a season, and a woman's name. Pools of June explores time, the natural world, and women. Pools of June moves from external falsehoods to internal truths. It transmogrifies patriarchal visions of the female into female selfhood and lesbian pride. It reconciles adversity and identity, trauma and love.

The quality of freshness is not strained in Mary Meriam's work. Vision, hearing and form interact in these poems to convey a sense of beauty and purpose. It takes a deft touch to kindle a new wick. How far this poet's candle casts its light in a dark world.

--Alfred Corn, author of Unions