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Krysl is the author of four collections of stories Essays: Short Stories: Poetry: |
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| Dinner with Osama .................................................................................... | |||||||||||
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“We may have to invent a new term--'the political lyric,' perhaps--to describe the 'airy speech and inspired story' in Marilyn Krysl's brilliant new collection of short fiction, Dinner with Osama. Here are stories that range from the whimsical 'Air, A Romance,' in which Krysl uses white space and typographical layout in a manner more typical of poetry than fiction, to the disturbing novella 'Welcome to the Torture Center, Love,' where the horrors of the Sudan are the heart of a love story. What holds all the fiction together, as much as the impassioned political and cultural concerns that inform them, is the writing, which is lyrical in the best sense, lyrical as in musical, expressive, and vivid." |
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| Notre Dame University Press, 2008 | |||||||||||
| Swear the Burning Vow: Selected and New Poems ............................ | |||||||||||
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In these poems of revelation and beauty, Krysl steps into the skin of the compassionate mystic. It fits—in this world of human, animal, plant and stone souls who are made of stars and earth—as she makes songs for the healer and the one to be healed, who are often one and the same. |
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| Ghost Road Press, 2009 |
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| How to Accommodate Men ..................................................................... | |||||||||||
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In this book Krysl writes about women who take care of men and get taken for granted in return. She looks at child abuse from the view points of both male and female children, and she explores the different coping mechanisms that boys and girls develop. Several stories discuss women in war-torn or military states who try to protect themselves and their children. Body image, witchcraft, homosexuality, and aging are among other issues crafted into these disturbing, well-written, and all-too-recognizable stories. —Library Journal |
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| Coffee House Press, 1998 |
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| Warscape with Lovers ............................................................................... | |||||||||||
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Love, war, human rights, famine— “Marilyn Krysl has found balance in places shaken by deprivation and injury. This is a beautiful book of poetry, not because it is lyrical (though it is), but because it treats suffering with love. It embraces what devours us. It instructs us by example in the way that poetry can be centered, conscionable and intimate. I feel in this book the power of open eyes and open arms.” |
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| Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1997 |
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| Soulskin ....................................................................................................... | |||||||||||
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This is a book on healing—self healing, healing in nature, healing in community. Krysl also interviews and writes about alternative healers—a curandera, a sound healer, a medicine woman. This book also includes poems about Mother Teresa's Kalighat home for the destitute and dying in Calcutta. “Marilyn Krysl’s new book is made of words that are clear and strong and naked. These poeoms journey out of the many empty spaces of America into flesh and pulse. She is a woman on a journey that is both poetic and carries moral weight.” “The first time I read her poetry my breath was taken away by the clarity of her insights into those who suffer so, as well as into the knowledge that we are all in some way that matters, even when devastated, complete in soul.” |
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| National League for Nursing Press, 1996 | |||||||||||
| What We Have To Live With .................................................................... | |||||||||||
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“Marilyn Krysl's poetry is funny, funky, tragic, brave, lyrical, humane, political, and full of surprises. The poems about the People's Republic of China, in this volume, are especially remarkable, whether they are talking back to Mao, or looking at boats glide over a lake at Hangzhou. And she is still writing the liveliest sestinas in America.” Her great, rambunctious sestinas anticipate ‘New Formalism’, but, I their modulated wildness and their disciplined strangeness, they are better than any of it.” |
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| Teal Press, 1989 | |||||||||||
| Midwife and Other Poems on Caring ..................................................... |
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“The poetry in this book provides a new language and a new voice for nursing's quest to seek alternative ways of being. Krysl helps us to push away the rock of apathy, of disinterest, of lassitude, and experience and feel the warm rays of light and energy that shine forth from the human spirit of caring embedded in nursing's most seemingly mundane acts.” |
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| National League for Nursing Press, 1989 | |||||||||||
| Mozart, Westmoreland, and Me .............................................................. | |||||||||||
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“Krysl is funny, fierce, and feminist in the best possible way, and a technician of variety and resourcefulness. I read her short stories with considerable pleasure, surprise, and admiration.” |
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| Thunder's Mouth Press, 1985 | |||||||||||
| Diana Lucifera ............................................................................................ | |||||||||||
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Krysl's book-length poem on women's liberation (subtitled My Life With the Murderer) scrutinizes ways in which women acquiesce to their own exploitation. A whirlwind and incisive tour throuth history, invoking Charles Manson, abortion, banking, the tradition of the courtesan, police brutality, Nixon, and the Roman goddess Diana Lucifera. |
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| Shameless Hussy Press, 1983 | |||||||||||
| Honey You've Been Dealt a Winning Hand ............................................ | |||||||||||
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In these stories, Marilyn Krysl explores the timely subject of women in transition. These women, bound in the traditional roles of housewife, mother, daughter, mother-to-be, try to come to terms with themselves and people around them. In seeking to reveal the truth about women in their daily lives, Krysl's message is that appearances only hint at what lurks beneath the surface. |
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| Capra Press, 1980 | |||||||||||
| More Palomino, Please, More Fuchsia ................................................... | |||||||||||
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In this book Krysl begins her rambunctious transformation of the sestina. |
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| Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1980 | |||||||||||
| Krysl's books can be purchased via the following links, or through your local independent bookstore. |
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