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Marianne Boruch is a poet and essayist whose eleven books of poetry include Cadaver, Speak, and The Book of Hours, both from Copper Canyon Press. Her work has appeared widely in magazines and journals, includingThe New Yorker, The New York Review of Books,andPoetryAmong her honors are the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for The Book of Hours and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation. She founded the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Purdue University and remains on faculty at the low-residency graduate Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
“Boruch refuses to see more than there is in things—but her patience, her willingness to wait for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw.”—Poetry “Boruch places the exceptional within the mundane and the intimate within the universal, and above all highlights the present moment without ever losing sight of a broader context in which now is just one moment among many.” —Publishers Weekly “She sees and considers with intensity. Her poems often give fresh examples of how rare and thrilling it can be to notice.”—Robert Pinsky, Book World, The Washington Post “Boruch displays a quietly gymnastic intellect in the examinations of art, the body, and the human condition.”—American Poets “Her approach isn’t meant to fix or crystallize her ideas in any hard and fast light, but rather to present the music of her thinking... Boruch brings in personal memory and philosophical speculation, infusing much of this writing with slightly skewed skepticism and rueful uncertainty about one’s ability to be absolute about anything.”—Trinity University Press
