The Woman in the Moon

“A Margie Saiser poem never disappoints! Saiser has the rare gift we see only in the finest poets. Like Emily Dickinson, she pays attention to the small, ordinary things—the common bird, the signs others walk by in the hurry of their lives. Looking longer, more carefully, she finds the extraordinary message that turns each moment on its head and cracks it open.”—Jonis Agee, author of The Bones of Paradise
“[Marjorie Saiser’s poems] open as doors to the unexpected, to what might be hidden, ‘an oriole . . . among the empty branches,’ a star like ‘one lone pin hole in the west,’ an aged father struggling to tie his brown shoes. These poems of the Nebraska plains and Arizona arroyos are doorways to what we’ve missed or forgotten in our own lives.”—Al Ortolani, author of Paper Birds Don’t Fly
 
“Saiser is attentive to her surroundings as only the best poets are, noting ‘that spiral of stars . . . over the captive life.’ She says, ‘I know the Milky Way on a moonless night,’ and, for all the disappointment and loneliness that may exist in the distance between her and the galaxy’s center, this reader believes her.”—David Wyatt, author of Gathering Place
 
 
“In ‘Despair Woke Me’ (one of my favorites), Saiser remembers what someone said to her long ago. It was, she says, ‘a small set of words, each following each,/ to make me smile in the dark.’ I might say the same of this lovely collection.”—Joyce Sutphen, author of The Green House
 
“What I like most about the poetry of Marjorie Saiser is the way her eye opens to the daily miracle of life—from the graffiti on the side of a train, to the wheel of cranes overhead, even to a simple tree stump. . . . The Woman in the Moon is a celebration of life in all its form.”—Brent Spencer, author of Rattlesnake Daddy: A Son’s Search for His Father