Martha Silano's Books
Feb.21.2011
With humor and musicality, Martha Silano's The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception rollicks through fourteen billion years of cosmology: galaxies, aliens, an astronaut's dropped glove. When she's not picking a bone with a shortsighted and side-talking populace, she's conceiving her own personal Big Bang. When her nouns are diaper and bibs, Silano sticks to a larger...
About Martha
I am a mother, writer, and teacher. Like Anne Sexton, the business of words often keeps me awake. My favorite tulip? Queen of the Night. I eat my vegetables, including brussels sprouts. My books are Blue Positive, What the Truth Tastes Like, and The Little...