After a year and a half of production issues, my latest poetry collection, A Brief Gazelle, has finally made its way into the world.
A Brief Gazelle is a collection of poems written over several decades that deal with love and heartbreak: the heartbreak that occurs when love loses its elusive luster. With cover art by local artist Antonella Manganelli, A Brief Gazelle examines all aspects of this most potent of human emotions with a strong use of language and imagery.
Here is what’s being said about the book:
Because he writes about what we value, Mike Maggio restores consciousness to language. His unswerving commitment to clarity makes poetry relevant as well as harmonic. Lyricism would mean nothing without the fine art of meaning; and, over time, other writers may wind down, but Mike Maggio will continue speaking with beauty, strength, and wisdom. In our poetry world, Maggio will surprise new readers who find him for the first time; and he will reassure old readers who are his fans.
— Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate Emeritus
In A Brief Gazelle, Mike Maggio explores the complexities of love–the joy and grief, the ephemeral and eternal, the real and surreal. Maggio masterfully integrates cinematic sensations of image and seasonal landscapes–inhabited by birds and celestial beings, flowers and trees, lakes and seas, and lovers who appear and disappear like gazelles–with a soundtrack of love songs. We hear the voices of lover and beloved expressing joy and pain, love that’s lost and found, grief that never leaves, and readers identify as both the speaker of the poem and the reader.
— Cathy Hailey, Cathy Hailey, Author of I’d Rather Be a Hyacinth and Vice-President, Poetry Society of Virginia
To purchase a signed copy of A Brief Gazelle, click on the following link:
Or you can purchase a copy directly from San Francisco Bay Press or from your favorite online bookstore.
Stay tuned for upcoming readings and events.
