Owen’s perceptive reports on the business of living resonate with humor, energy, and wisdom.

From the poet's birthplace in Graceville, Minnesota, to California horse tracks, from New York apartments to the Colorado mountains, Owen's perceptive reports on the business of living resonate with humor, energy, and wisdom. Full of news and gossip, bulletins on science and art, memories of love and loss, these poems are superb collages of the myriad erosions that strengthen and shape our lives.

Praise

In Erosion’s Pull, Maureen Owen
epitomizes quantum poetics
or
being in 67 places at one time
or
The Atomizer
—Bernadette Mayer

In Maureen Owen’s perfectly titled Erosion’s Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses.
—Susan Howe