IN THIS BURNING WORLD: POEMS OF LOVE AND APOCALYPSE
by Mary Mackey
In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse offers readers 64 new, beautifully-written, profound poems by Mary Mackey, winner of the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book in the United States Published by a Small Press. In this stunning collection, Mackey unflinchingly imagines the future we will face as the Earth’ s climate changes, while at the same time offering readers inspiring poems that describe how mutual aid and love can preserve hope and joy in even the most difficult of times.
Copies of In This Burning World can be purchased from: Independent Publishing Group and Amazon.com
Praise for In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse
“In This Burning World is a visionary epic that turns devastatingly intimate. William Blake is here as is Hiroshima, but the prophetic arc is Mary Mackey’s alone. How do we negotiate an apocalypse when the enemy is the self, when we have known for centuries where our path leads? There can perhaps be no answer, but Mackey inhabits these questions with a fierce exemplary responsibility. Her poems are invested with the sacred energy of the natural world whose destruction she can’t endure. Her book is incandescent. You won’t forget it.” — D. Nurkse
“The world needs more Mary Mackey.” — Richard Wiles, President of the Center
for Climate Integrity
“Mary Mackey’s poems are powerful, beautiful, and have extraordinary range. May her concern for the planet help save it.” — Maxine Hong Kingston
“Intensely lyrical, profound, brilliantly written, and always accessible, these poems ask us not only to imagine what the world will be like as the Earth’s climate changes, but how we can preserve joy and compassion in times of catastrophe.”
— Pamela Berkman author of Her Infinite Variety and The Falling Nun
“Mackey’s crisp-edged perceptions are set down in these poems with a sensuous, compassionate, and utterly unflinching eye.” —Jane Hirshfield
“Think of Cassandra, when not believed, going mad and singing love songs so beautiful Apollo would have died for them if he could. Mary Mackey, one of our very finest poets, is not mad, and her new book In This Burning World has such power and beauty it would make any god envious.” —Rafael Jesús González, First Poet Laureate of Berkeley, CA
“Ecosphere Studies is in its early stage with Mary Mackey’s poems.”
—Wes Jackson, Founder of the Land Institute
“Mary Mackey is a national treasure.” —Tulsa Book Review