The Whole Marie

Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. A nexus of associations, psychic and social, binds olive groves to the pretext of a headache to the thinnest dresses. A record of solitary activity, mental and physical, disrupts a life in a context where a succession of bookkeepers are recalled, a car is towed, an easement is sought, and tourists are studied, because sooner or later, one is one. Patient, curious, ranging, THE WHOLE MARIE has a personality. And it is artifactual. And wondrous. Its ambiguities are offset by its concretions. Vice versa. She carries her ‘one time camera.’ Finally, the breath is her guide–C.D. Wright, judge of the 2008 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Moultas’s 2004 collection, IN A COMBINATION OF PRACTICES, is also available from SPD.