Red Deer Paperback by Anne Marie Macari

Product Details

• Publisher: Persea Books (2015-04-14)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 80 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892554560
• Item Weight: 283.5 grams
• Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.43 cm

These poems delve deep within the earth, exploring the prehistoric caves of France and Spain, communing with the lives and art of those who once inhabited them. Macari connects us with a distant past, with "memory / stumbling into mineral stillness. . .a forgotten animal / across my shoulders.”

This fourth collection, by the author of Ivory Cradle, unearths a hidden prehistoric world of art and art-makers. Anne Marie Macari delves deep within the earth, exploring the prehistoric caves of France and Spain, communing with the lives and art of those who once inhabited them.  Writing from a variety of perspectives and in diverse voices, Macari connects us with a distant past, with "memory / stumbling into mineral stillness. . .a forgotten animal / across my shoulders.”

About the Author

Anne Marie Macari is the author of five books of poetry. Her first book, Ivory Cradle, won the APR/Honickman first book prize. She is also the co-editor of Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books. Macari’s poetry and prose has been widely published in magazines. In 2005 she was the recipient of the James Dickey Prize for poetry from 5 Points Magazine. She lives in New York City.