Böcker av Anne Marie Macari

Walking through the landscape of loss, the poems in Heaven Beneath explore the illness of a parent and the parallel ongoing degradation and destruction of the planet and its creatures. Beneath "paved-over space," in the deep currents of a river, or the shadows of great trees, there's another world, there's a heaven, unknowable, in the muck, alive and with us, not distant or abstract. Using music as an essential force, as the conductor, and meditating on the deep lyric, Anne Marie Macari's poem summon mystery, energy, and a longing to enter, to touch, our heaven beneath, to walk with loss, to give in to the whole, the complete.

This fourth collection, bythe author of Ivory Cradle, unearthsa hidden prehistoric world of art and art-makers. Anne Marie Macari delves deepwithin the earth, exploring the prehistoric caves of France and Spain, communingwith the lives and art of those who once inhabited them.  Writing from a variety of perspectives and indiverse voices, Macari connects us with a distant past, with "memory / stumblinginto mineral stillness. . .a forgotten animal / across my shoulders."