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The Fires of Spring, A Novel by Mary Mackey
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The Year the Horses Came
The Horses At the Gate
The Fires of Spring by Mary Mackey
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Immersion by Mary Mackey
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JUST PUBLISHED
A New Collection of Poems
by Mary Mackey

Hear Mary read some of these poems at Voetica.com

In The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, Mary Mackey writes of life, death, love, and passion with intensity and grace. Her poems are hugely imaginative and multi-layered. Part One contains forty-eight new poems including twenty-one set in Western Kentucky from 1742 to 1975; and twenty-six unified by an exploration of the tropical jungle outside and within us, plus a surreal and sometimes hallucinatory appreciation of the visionary power of fever. Part Two offers the reader seventy-eight poems drawn from Mackey’s seven previous collections including Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 Oakland PEN Award for Literary Excellence. In his introduction to Jaguars, poet D. Nurkse says: “Mary Mackey has created an oeuvre, wilder, more open to change with each passing year. Hers is a monumental achievement.”

Praise for The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams

“It is difficult to resist the temptation to compare Mary Mackey to Elizabeth Bishop. Both poets are stunningly imagistic, musical, and awake to topography, sociology, and the world beyond.”                      —The Huffington Post

“Mary Mackey’s poems are powerful, beautiful, and have extraordinary range. This is the poetry of a woman who has lived richly, and felt deeply. May her concern for the planet help save it.”— Maxine Hong Kingston

Always Mackey’s eye is drawn to the marginalized, the poor, the outcast, the trivialized.  [In] The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, she has created an oeuvre, wilder, more open to change with each passing year. Hers is a monumental achievement.”—D. Nurkse

“Mackey’s crisp-edged perceptions are set down with a sensuous, compassionate, and utterly unflinching eye.”—Jane Hirshfield

“Her fine work deserves every-widening exposure.” —Al Young, California Poet Laureate

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The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams
Published by Marsh Hawk Press 2018
marshhawkpress.org
ISBN 978-0-99699112-4
$15 paper; $2.99 Kindle e-book

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Mary Mackey, Author

Mary Mackey is a bestselling author who has written fourteen novels some of which have appeared on the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller Lists. She is also the author of eight volumes of poetry including Sugar Zone winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, winner of a 2018 CIIS Women’s Spirituality Book Award. Mackey’s novels have been translated into twelve languages including Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, Greek, and Finnish. Her poems have been praised by Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, Marge Piercy, and Dennis Nurkse for their beauty, precision, originality, and extraordinary range. Garrison Keillor featured her poetry four times on The Writer’s Almanac. Also a screenwriter, she has sold feature-length scripts to Warner Brothers as well as to independent film companies. Mackey sometimes writes comedy under her pen name “Kate Clemens.” She has a B.A. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The University of Michigan and is related through her father’s family to Mark Twain. At present, she lives in northern California with her husband Angus Wright. ” Lowenstein Associates recently published her novel The Village of Bones, a prequel to her bestselling Earthsong Series.

 

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