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| Possible Sibyls by Madeline DeFrees |
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Poetry
ISBN: 0-89924-080-1
Paper: $10.00
ISBN: 0-89924-079-8 Cloth: $24.00
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These poems are like Donne's...in their 'metaphysical' mixture of incongruous elements, their use of outrageous conceit...their limited allusiveness, and mostly in their refusal to allow the speaker (or the reader) any rest, any false resolution of the unrelenting struggle she is locked in.
-Robert Holland, for Poetry magazine |
| Madeline DeFrees was born in Ontario, Oregon in 1919 and moved to Hillsboro in 1923. After graduation from St. Mary's Academy in Portland, she entered the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, where she was known for many years as Sister Mary Gilbert. After receiving a B.A. degree from Maryhurst College and an M.A. from the University of Oregon, she taught at Holy Names College in Spokane from 1950 to 1967. While still a nun, she taught at the University of Montana, in Missoula, from 1967 to 1979. In late 1973 she was dispensed from her religious vows. She taught at the University of Massachusetts from 1979 to 1985, after which she retired to Seattle. DeFrees is the author of seven full-length poetry collections, including Blue Dusk (Copper Canyon, 2001), winner of the 2002 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Washington Book Award, and two chapbooks, as well as two non-fiction books about convent life. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts. |
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