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Marilyn Krysl

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Marilyn Krysl is the Sullivan Prize-winning author of DINNER WITH OSAMA and has published four collections of stories, work in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic and other journals, in Best American Short Stories 2000, O. Henry Prize Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She has taught ESL in the People's Republic of China, served as Artist in Residence at the Center for Human Caring in Denver, worked as a volunteer for Peace Brigade International in Sri Lanka, and volunteered at the Kalighat Home for the Destitute and Dying administered by Mother Teresa's Sisters of Charity in Calcutta. She currently volunteers with The Lost Boys of Sudan and C-SAW, Community of Sudanese and American Women.

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Average rating: 4.39 · 44 ratings · 7 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors

	Dinner with Osama 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Accommodate Men 4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1998	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Warscape with Lovers 4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soulskin 4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1996	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midwife & Other Poems on Caring 4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1989	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What We Have To Live With 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honey, You've Been Dealt A Winning Hand 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swear the Burning Vow 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diana Lucifera 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1983	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Palomino, Please, More Fuchsia 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Marilyn rated a book 5 of 5 stars Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Marilyn rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Round House by Louise Erdrich read in January, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
LOUISE ERDRICH I used to be a voracious reader of poetry, stories, nonfiction and novels. Now I’m seventy, and a curious thing has happened: I begin a novel, but twenty pages in, nine pages in, four pages in I put the novel down and do not open the bo...more
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Marilyn rated a book 5 of 5 stars Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry read in November, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I’m lured and charmed and made happy by Ferry’s willing self-deprecation. And by his musical ear. And his ability to play out a line of thought further and further…and further, then bring me up short with an unexpected, snappy closure. I like his res...more
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Marilyn rated a book 5 of 5 stars Help Is on the Way by John Brehm	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Marilyn rated a book 5 of 5 stars 100 Notes on Violence by Julie Carr read in January, 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is an important book for poets, and Carr is a writer to watch. She is smart, erudite, wise, thoughtful, careful, honest and gifted. It is, as Bin Ramke writes, "incendiary...."
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Marilyn rated a book 1 of 5 stars You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake by Anna Moschovakis	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Marilyn added The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011 by Alicia Ostriker	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Marilyn rated a book 5 of 5 stars Azores: Poems by David Yezzi read in January, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Yezzi is editor of the New Criterion, and deserves that honor. He's skilled at nuance, which matters most, AND he has a musical ear, something that is often absent in 21st century poetry. Listen: Who bothers to look for what's not lost? Some morning...more
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Marilyn rated a book 5 of 5 stars Sixty Sonnets by Ernest Hilbert read in January, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Ernest Hilbert’s SIXTY SONNETS, published by Red Hen, 2009, is a rare gem. Open the book anywhere: you won’t be disappointed. Read one sonnet and you’ll want to stop and not let yourself read another until the next day: that’s how skillfully packed e...more
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