Applies to Oranges
Applies to Oranges is my first full-length collection of poetry, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2011. Check out an excerpt, press release, and ordering information here.
Maureen Thorson's first full-length book is a necessary satellite signal made of a uniquely singular ache and echo. She deftly performs a precise dissection of heartbreak's timeless ability to blow open the universe of our lives and allow our fascinating agonies to burst into being. Applies to Oranges is a collection that is, at once, a mythic tale of loss and a microscopic look into the delicate beauty of broken things. These wonderful poems demand that you linger in their haunting world, and as Thorson says, 'breathe slowly, if at all.' — Ada Limón (author of The Carrying)
interviews
Stephen McLaughlin interviewed me for Jacket2's Into the Field feature. Oranges are on the discussion list -- so round, so mysterious.
reviews
You can find Jacket2's review here.
Here is The Volta's review of A2O.
The Rumpus reviews Applies to Oranges here.
Impose reviews A2O here.
You can find Publishers Weekly's take here.
Geof Huth also posted a lengthy and very kind review of the book over at dbqp: visualizing poetics.
Thanks also to Trevor Calvert for his review!
book trailers
Try the long trailer, at just under a minute, or the short trailer, a mere thirty seconds!