Mummery

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mummery</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> all the world's a stage. Historically mummery requires silence but on the stage crafted by Maura Way nothing goes unsaid. Poem after poem presents a speaker unafraid to dissect the performance of a life in which every familiar story is rendered the strangest adventure. (Christopher Shipman) </span>These poems are wise genial witty and sharp as acid rain. They sing hard through American heartache. (Catherine Wagner) We're lucky when a poet's sense of humor merges with old-soul wisdom . . . . This poet who she avows has seen clowns from / both sides now. (Janet Holmes) </p>