As a musician she has performed with Mark Morris Dance Group, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Kanye West and Pharrell, among others. Mae has performed sound/text collaborations with musicians from The National, Bon Iver, and the American String Quartet. It is clear we are in the hands ofa highly cultivated, intelligent writer."Ī classically-trained musician and a champion of cross-genre work, J. Phillip Lopate wrote that Barizo's "exquisite poems display throughout a mastery of poetic form and a thoroughly professional command of surface and tone. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Bennington College, the New School, the Jerome Foundation and Poets House. A prize-winning poet, critic and performer, recent work appears in AGNI, Bookforum, Boston Review, Hyperallergic and Los Angeles Review of Books. Mae Barizo is the author of The Cumulus Effect. The Cumulus Effect sets on the page a prismatic and complex topography of the body forever en route.īorn in Toronto, J. Minimalist, but insistently mercurial, the poems move through American and European cities: seduction in an Neoclassical palace in Saint Petersburg a "hindsight of blood" in New York City late-summer longing in Berlin's Senefelder Platz.
The Cumulus Effect alternates between the act of forgetting and the tumult of remembering.