PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2018. In ambitious and dextrous poems employing a variety of formal guises, Mary Meriam creates for us an impressionistic yet incisive vision of love and loss in her powerful new collection, My Girl’s Green Jacket . . . Meriam’s assured poems pulse with a channeled intensity, leading us as readers through an emotional and intellectual landscape . . . A collection as brilliant as it is emotionally nuanced, My Girl’s Green Jacket offers us a complex imaginative mirror to hold up against our current reality. —STU WATSON EDITOR OF PRELUDE 

Lush, acrobatic, heartbroken, and witty by turns, or all at once, Mary Meriam’s poems pack plot, memory, landscape, and longing into firm and elegant shapes. To call this work formally accomplished isn’t sufficient. Meriam’s lyricism is nervous and incandescent; her poems coruscate and spin. My Girl’s Green Jacket honors not only the urgency of desire but also its mercurial restlessness. Poetic forebears ranging from Sappho to Hopkins, from H.D. to Marilyn Hacker, turn out to be not only generative models but also anchors in a world of relentless change. —RACHEL HADAS AUTHOR OF POEMS FOR CAMILLA