Ocean Avenue (New Issues Press Poetry Series)
Winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize (1998)
The poet's sense of wonder is contagious whether she views the world from her seat on a train, from the window of her apartment, or from the streets of the city. Through a subtle, mediated surrealism, M¶rling reins in the urban landscapes of New York, drawing the reader into her meditations on the temporal and the spatial, on language itself.