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Maura Stanton

Born: 1946 in Evanston, Ilinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Maura was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois.

Biography: Maura received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and her M.F.A. in 1971 from the University of Iowa. She has taught at the State University of New York at Cortland (1972-1973), the University of Richmond (1973-1977), Humboldt State University (1977-1978), the University of Arizona (1978-1982), and Indiana University, where she has been employed since 1982.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: stanton@indiana.edu
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~engweb/faculty/profile_mStanton.shtml
Maura Stanton on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=maura+stanton


Selected Titles

Cities in the sea /
ISBN: 047211364X OCLC: 593240019

University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor : ©2003.

In Cities in the Sea, Maura Stanton taps into the mysterious force of the fairy tale, with its fantastic images and magical narrative patterns. Her stories blur the boundaries between fairy tale and verit+, and comment on the art of storytelling. A range of characters -- from a business man to a pianist, from a county coroner to a hardware store clerk, from a Greek immigrant to a Danish artist -- come to discover that the past is a ruined kingdom, lost forever, but still a place to visit in wish, dream, and memory. Throughout her stories, Stanton attempts to wrest a deeper pattern, full of hum.

  Cities in the Sea.
ISBN: 1282423258 OCLC: 824099903

University of Michigan Press 2009.

In Cities in the Sea, Maura Stanton taps into the mysterious force of the fairy tale, with its fantastic images and magical narrative patterns. Her stories blur the boundaries between fairy tale and verit+, and comment on the art of storytelling. A range of characters -- from a business man to a pianist, from a county coroner to a hardware store clerk, from a Greek immigrant to a Danish artist -- come to discover that the past is a ruined kingdom, lost forever, but still a place to visit in wish, dream, and memory. Throughout her stories, Stanton attempts to wrest a deeper pattern, full of humor and wonder, out of the disturbing events of contemporary life. Maura Stanton's previous books include the novel Molly Companion and the story collections The Country I Come From and Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling. Stanton is a recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award and a two-time winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at Indiana University.

  Cries of swimmers /
ISBN: 0887481248 OCLC: 26492327

Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. : 1991.

  Do not forsake me, oh my darling /
ISBN: 026802555x OCLC: 47183471

Glacier wine /
ISBN: 0887483402 OCLC: 46839602

Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh : 2001.

Immortal sofa :
ISBN: 0252075803 OCLC: 811409979

University of Illinois Press, Urbana : ©2008.

A poetic exploration of the power of human imagination In accessible poems full of rich detail and painterly images, Maura Stanton looks under the surface of the ordinary, hoping to find the magic spark below the visible. In poems both humorous and elegaic, she gathers strange facts, odd events, and overlooked stories to construct her own vision of immortality, one made up of fragments of history and geography and the illusions of yearning human beings. From elephants in Ceylon to Nazi prisoners in Ireland, from Beowulf to Jane Austen, from sonnets to prose poems to blank verse, Immortal Sofa conjures our complex existence in all its sorrowful but astonishing variety. -- Publisher's website.

  Molly Companion /
ISBN: 0380404362 OCLC: 4875059

Avon Books, New York : 1979, ©1977.

  Snow on Snow.
ISBN: 0887481590 OCLC: 28242892

Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh : 1993.

Tales of the supernatural :
ISBN: 087923749X OCLC: 18106356

D.R. Godine, Boston : 1988.

The country I come from /
ISBN: 0915943336 OCLC: 18695045

Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, Minn. : 1988.

 

 

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