Molly Peacock, Author . Norton $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-05123-0
Peacock won admiration, and notoriety, in the 1980s for combining traditional rhyming forms, reader-friendly narrative interest and explicit sexual content. Raw Heaven
(1984), her second book, introduced her signature devices: in it, she used...
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Molly Peacock, Author . Norton $23.95 (85p) ISBN 978-0-393-06651-7
Since the 1980s, Peacock has used her gifts for meter and rhyme to portray, and to praise, her own experience, framing brief encounters, regrets and sexual joys with energy and clarity that suggest poets from Edna St. Vincent Millay to Marilyn...
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Molly Peacock, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (91p) ISBN 978-0-393-03741-8
Peacock (Take Heart) moves away from her well-crafted formal poems, many virtually indistinguishable from those of a dozen other poets, to speak here in a voice uniquely her own. Explicit eroticism rivals that of Sharon Olds, while the angst welling
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Molly Peacock, Author Riverhead Books $23.95 (337p) ISBN 978-1-57322-097-2
This witty, involving memoir by award-winning poet Peacock (Original Love) tells the story of her decision not to have children, a choice first contemplated at the age of three when her sister, Gail, was born. A native of upstate New York, Peacock...
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Molly Peacock. McClelland & Stewart (Penguin Random House, dist.), $27.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7710-7015-0
Peacock (The Paper Garden) imagines lives for each letter of the alphabet. By turns poignant and playful, these 26 stories all have a poetic sensibility and are told with a deceptive simplicity. Peacock does not appear to have strict rules to abide...
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Molly Peacock. Norton, $25.95 (106p) ISBN 978-0-393-25471-6
In her seventh poetry collection,
multigenre writer Peacock (The Second Blush) explores, through frank and tender portraits, the post-stroke life of her longtime psychoanalyst. She uses verbal collage to capture childhood memory and textures the...
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Molly Peacock. Norton, $26.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-324-07943-9
Peacock’s affecting and confessional latest (after A Friend Sails in on a Poem) wrestles with the aftermath of her late husband’s terminal cancer diagnosis. Throughout, she cultivates a landscape of emotional dichotomies, such as the feeling of “love
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