Sugar Zone
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00681DMX2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 510 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her published works include six collections of poetry, including BREAKING THE FEVER (Marsh Hawk Press, 2006) and SUGAR ZONE (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011) and twelve novels. She is past president of the West Coast branch of PEN, a Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Sacramen
Exciting new work! Amazon Customer I've been a fan of Mackey's since I read her last book of poetry, Breaking the Fever, and was hoping this volume would live up to my expectations, but actually it exceeded them. While there are a number of poems in the style I loved before, the author has expanded her range, composing . A hidden gem! cafereadsdotblogspotdotcom Sugar Zone is one of those hidden gems. It is a tapestry of two languages interwoven, and its exploration of human nature becomes deeper and richer through its use of English and Portuguese. Though some poems are choppy and difficult to navigate, I found most of the poems to have a flu. Napoleon said Muito bom - Poetry with Brazilian FLAIR. Presently Brazil is a country of great contrast. You have the excitement of a developing nation coming into its own and a bright and sunny culture of samba and carnival. Then you have the dark side: the narcotics trade, the recent military dictatorship, the lingering shadow of slavery.
These are death haunted poems but full of the vitality of the jungle, the favelas of Rio, the itself.” --Marge Piercy “Mackey’s crisp-edged perceptions are set down in these poems with a sensuous, compassionate, and utterly unflinching eye.” --Jane Hirshfield. Mackey joins other visionary poets of dépaysement—Henri Michaux in Asia, John Ash in Anatolia, Sharon Doubiago in Peru, Lorca in Manhattan. But Mackey really seems to recover a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forró, and death. Mackey's range is extraordinary. Although over half the poems take as their subject the great cities and tropical rainforest of Brazil, which Mackey knows intimately, her real subject is a journey through a visionary landscape of the human heart which lies somewhere between Saint Theresa's Inner Castle and the thicket of Eros.“In Sugar Zone, Mary Mackey takes you on a fascinating journey to the interior, somewhere between Saint Theresa’s Inner Castle and the thicket of Eros—but also a place of desperate actuality, even if it is on the other side of the world
Mackey really seems to recover a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forro, and death. In SUGAR ZONE, Mary Mackey takes you on a fascinating journey to a place of desperate actuality joining other visionary poets of dépaysement- Henri Michaux in Asia, John Ash in Anatolia, Sharon Doubiago in Peru, Lorca in Manhattan. --Dennis NurskeMary Mackey's new collection SUGAR ZONE is the culmination of many trips to Brazil. Most poems crackle with powerful and lush imagery; others are stark