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Iuppa lives in Hamlin, NY, near the shores of Lake Ontario. </div> <div> She is the Writer-in-Residence at St.John Fisher College</div> <div> and curates the Genesee Reading Series at Writers & Books, Rochester, NY. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Night Traveler (2003)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0ddf4810.jpg" border=0 width="244" height="385" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Night Traveler</I> is a fresh dance of imagination and reality, demonstrating again that neither is whole without the other. These poems are exquisite in their delicacy, like a butterfly balanced on the lip of a wineglass. A gifted descendent of Emily Dickinson, and with an equally sturdy sense of irony, M.J. Iuppa makes her lines crackle with honesty, insight and lyric verve.  For all the richness and variety, there's not a wasted word.  Each poem contains surprises that bring us back to our world and ourselves.  Each offers a clarification of our vivid senses, our complicated hearts.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> --Stan Sanvel Rubin</div> <div> Director,  Rainier Writing Workshop</div> <div> Low Residency MFA Program</div> <div> Past director,  SUNY Brockport Writers Forum</div> <bR> <div> In <I>Night Traveler</I>, M.J. Iuppa looks at how we negotiate the entanglements of responsibility and desire.  Season by season, human time is folded into the larger trajectory of the universe.  "I remember seeing / from both sides"-the method of these imaginative, mercurial poems is juxtaposition; the effect is double exposure.  "Grief is milkweed," Iuppa states, and the images compound: an aging father, a lone traffic signal, fields of green corn, the sound of moving water, snow in the orchard, the spider's sinister silken web, two silver balloons on the back of a bicyclist "on the road built to go nowhere," a toppled tree and the shadow it has fallen into, a woman's dream of finding her way home, all become something we, too, must learn to touch and then reluctantly release.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                                        --Judith Kitchen</div> <div> Essayist, novelist, and critic.</div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Early Morning</B></div> <bR> <div> In the wide yard of an abandoned farmstead,</div> <div> a giant fir tree has collapsed-</div> <bR> <div> fallen in the place of its shadow, lying broken</div> <div> and stiff, its roots exposing the sore</div> <bR> <div> mouth that's unable to speak-</div> <div> I've been driving since the night before, </div> <div>           </div> <div> wheeling down mountain roads, seeing woods</div> <div> and small towns repeat in the thrum of wind</div> <bR> <div> and tire, and I am tired, coming closer</div> <div> I stop, stop for a long time, look hard at</div> <bR> <div> the giant fir, at the abandoned house, at</div> <div> the wind-whipped yard, and wonder what life was</div> <bR> <div> before shadows left country roads,</div> <div> before nights became vacant space</div> <bR> <div> and the house turned out its lights and only a tree</div> <div> was left to stand against the odds of falling down.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Night Traveler</B></FONT><I> </I>is an 80 page paperback, hand-sewn, with flat spine - 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