Glassy, Sunlit, Wider than You Thought

poems by Marjorie Power

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Having relocated more times than she ever expected, Marjorie Power experiences life as a sprawling house that exists in a continuous present. One room has a panoramic view of dry flatlands edged by mountains. Another is for places lush with moss and ferns. There are rooms for crowded cities; ruined landscapes; dreams, music and visual art; loved ones living and gone; the forgiven; the yet-to-be forgiven; the 24/7 news cycle. And, stubbornly, a room for hope. Glassy, Sunlit, Wider than You Thought explores this house. All the doors are open.

POETRY / General

ISBN: 978-1-971191-43-0 (print; softcover; perfect bound)

LCCN: 2026953631

Released November 2026 | Copyright 2026

102 pages

Author Biography

Marjorie Power grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. She received a BA from San Francisco State College (now University) in 1969 and did graduate work at the University of Washington. Her best memories from that experience are the poetry workshops. She then became a stay-at-home mom who wrote poems during school hours. After forty-five years in the Pacific Northwest and five in Colorado, Marjorie moved with her husband in 2020 to live near younger family in Rochester, New York. She has four other full-length collections out from small presses, most recently Sufficient Emptiness (Deerbrook Editions, 2021). Her chapbook Birds on Discovery Island was selected for the Main Street Rag Editor’s Choice Chapbook Series in 2005. Five more chapbooks appeared from three other publishers and one from a hospital. Poet Lore, Atlanta Review, Epoch, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and many other publications have used her work.

Endorsements

“Marjorie Power observes wisely and crafts powerful poems with a light touch. ‘I belong to dreams that wake me / at this terrible hour’ she declares, yet goes on to offer, improbably, an extravagant peace. Carefully (and comically), a couple negotiates a too small space in the poem ‘Sleeping Car,’ then, in lines that give title to this new collection, comes a sudden, expansive joy that impacted this reader in a visceral way. From uplift and wordplay to somber reflection, so much happens in any given poem. Power muses in ‘Why I Keep an Umbrella’ not just on weather but on losses and inheritances: the umbrella, ‘from a now-dead friend who didn’t use it. Bright yellow, like her laughter,’ is hers now. To anyone open to what poetry can do, I urge you to find and read Glassy, Sunlit, Wider Than You Thought.”
—Bart White, author of Vision of the Temple: Poems from Following Basho

“Marjorie Power holds the camera like a visionary filmmaker, moving deftly between voices and locations, narrative and form, twists and omissions. Her poems offer mysteries and questions without oversimplifying answers; they are not just about what we see and remember, but how we see and remember.”
—Amy Miller, Chad Walsh Prize-winning author of Astronauts

“Like ‘the fox against a snowy field’ that teaches us ‘the meaning of sleek and radiant,’ Marjorie Power’s poetry expands our vision to consider all the possibilities packed into a moment in time. These poems often open with stanzas presenting a scene in situ, a cinematic eye cataloguing placement and juxtaposition, shadow and light. Power then uses her considerable craft to widen or tighten the aperture. The tone is observational, yet very engaged—and often dryly funny!—leading the lucky reader to a landing that, poem after poem, can startle and yet is so organic to the work that it can be the only possible ending. Glassy, Sunlit, Wider Than You Thought invites us into a world that contains the permission of dreams—a world where poems are ‘born, whispered, mumbled, sung.’ How fortunate we are to enter.”
—David J. S. Pickering, Airlie Prize-winning author of Jesus Comes to Me as Judy Garland

“If your battery goes bad and your life needs an imaginative jump start, read these poems by Marjorie Power—she’s electric! In the introduction to her fifth collection, Glassy, Sunlit, Wider Than You Thought, she describes home as having become a spiritual place, not a physical location. Come, then, let us visit her home, via road trips, trains, and immaculate ships. We discover our world as we go: nature everywhere, many friends, balloons as ‘the reason we have sky,’ sexual innuendo—‘stepping stones / stepped over / into the moist weedy gaps between’—and one of my favorites, in which she can’t ‘settle,’ a whole poem about ‘drizzle.’ We all travel together. You’re invited!”
—Tom Snyder, author of Two Dogs and a Cigar

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