Mary Maxwell

Mary Maxwell has published six volumes of poems: An Imaginary Hellas, Emporia, Cultural Tourism, Nine Over Sixes, Oral Lake and Word Suites.  She is the author of an art monograph, Serena Rothstein: Discourse in Paint, as well as the omnibus collections, The Longnook Overlook (Volumes One and Two).  She has completed a volume of nonfiction about the genesis and meaning of the movie, The Night of the Hunter, whose origins can be traced back to her childhood hometown of Clarksburg, West Virginia; an excerpt recently appeared in Raritan. Her translations of Provençal, Latin and Classical Greek poetry have appeared in The American Voice, Literary Imagination, Pequod, Vanitas, The Washington Post Book World and the anthology, Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry. She is a contributor to Oxford University Press's forthcoming Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome as well as to The Routledge Companion to Ezra Pound.

As a critic and independent scholar she has published in literary periodicals such as Agni, Arion, Boston Review, Partisan Review, PN Review, Revel, Salmagundi, Threepenny Review and Yale Review. A collection of her essays and talks on prosody and translation is forthcoming from LongNookBooks.