Marguerite Young is known primarily for a mammoth novel, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965), a hallucinatory picaresque featuring an ensemble of eccentric characters, and for two novelistic historical studies: Angel in the Forest (1945), about the Utopian communities of New Harmony, Indiana, and Harp Song for a Radical (1999), a rhapsodic biography of Eugene Debs. She’s hardly known at all for her two books of poetry, Prismatic Ground (1937) and Moderate Fable (1944). Though her prose works have been in and out of print over the years, her poetry collections were never reprinted after their first appearances.
