Displaced Dolls and Oviducts - by Marigo J Stathis (Hardcover)

About the Book

A bold, edgy, and heartrending collection of verse that speaks to the modern woman's authentic experience, covering ground from the whimsical and mythical to the solemn and appallingly foul.

Book Synopsis

A bold, edgy, and heartrending collection of verse that speaks to the modern woman's authentic experience, covering ground from the whimsical and mythical to the solemn and appallingly foul. Deftly woven together are fabrics of topical issues related to vanity, aging, mental health, friendship, family, love, grief, trauma, survival, self-discovery, and acceptance. Whether from the perspective of a female tattoo artist, assault victim, or stranger in a ladies' room, poems as lyrics of raw truth serve as springboards for connection, celebration, and healing.

Review Quotes

Marigo Stathis' voice, from bleak and beautiful Baltimore, wakes up our "slapped dreams" stranded on the Ladies' Room door. There is manna here in her poems for all writers, whether their instruments are pen and paper, copper wires, or gut strings. These compositions in Displaced Dolls and Oviducts conjure their own unique primal rhythm-musicians, take serious note.

-Tori Amos, Singer-songwriter, Composer, Recording Artist

Displaced Dolls and Oviducts takes us on a curated tour through the female soul-branded, cracked, intricately folded, defiantly laughing, and secretly linked up to all the other female souls. The impressions remind me of those bygone instamatic snapshots we shove aside in boxes for years, then stare at for hours with wonder. Evocative work from a wise and compassionate writer.

-Ilya Chaiken, American Film Director, Producer, and Screenwriter, Liberty Kid, The Unlovables,

and Margarita Happy Hour

Marigo Stathis' poems bring us a world informed by her formidable intelligence, rich imagination, and deep heart. To read her work is to feel renewed.

-Nikia Leopold, Art Historian, Author, Poet, Healing with Shadows

Displaced Dolls and Oviducts invites us into the poignant, often difficult world of girls and women who struggle on the "female warrior's path to self-worth and discovery." With lyric intelligence, compassion, and humor, these poems bear witness to the complexities of female experience and celebrate feminine quests and rites. To read this collection is to enter into poetic rhythms that pulse like "things of beauty, / with contused cores- / injured fragments, / human origami." Yet ultimately these poems give hope: "Remember the wings," the poet admonishes us.

-Marguerite A. Tassi, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Shakespeare, University of Nebraska

Marigo Stathis' writing is richly thematic, raining clemency on the reader with tight-toned music of compassion and solicitude. There is something more about the splendid collection, splendidly arranged, than can be known: art compresses nature, poetry suffers with the sufferer, or allows the sufferer to suffer with it; perhaps it does so as nothing else can if it doesn't-and thereby liberates, if just a little.

-Eric Stull, Adjunct Professor of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies, Bowie State University