Painful These Gorgeous Days

Poems by Margo Mensing

ISBN: 979-8-3507-5723-1
By: Mensing, Margo

ABOUT THE BOOK

As in her meditation on cleaning the chandelier that takes in prisms of light, splinters of color, and all the fumes of ammonia, Margo Mensing’s poems look to the full experience of everyday life. Whether coming from the studio or the kitchen, Mensing’s voice ranges from the conversational and casual observational to more formal testimony. Throughout, she establishes a rhythm of evocative imagery, keen observation, a sense of distillation and clarity, a crisp close. We find in these pages a woman at the oars on the lake on a windy Saturday wearing a mirrored cap that offers sightlines to what is behind, what is ahead; these poems, too, take in the full view.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Margo Mensing

Margo Mensing, an interdisciplinary artist, poet, and professor of fiber arts, was born on October 4th, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois to Hazel and Paul Mensing. Her family moved from Chicago to Detroit, Michigan where Margo graduated from Birmingham High School in 1959. Margo was a member of the Scribblers’ Club, devoted to reading, writing and discussion. Margo graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1963, the University of Michigan History Department with a master’s in American history in 1969 and received an MFA and Graduate Certificate in Art History/Theory/Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1987. Margo lived in Saratoga Springs, NY and was an associate professor of textile arts at Skidmore College. To learn more about Margo see www.margomensing.com and Flow of Material: The Artwork of Margo Mensing.