Breaking the Fever - Softcover

Mary Mackey

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ISBN 10: 0972478582 ISBN 13: 9780972478588

Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press, 2006

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Poetry. "Most poets seem to write poetry with the will, relentlessly suppressing every part of themselves that isn't ecstatic. Mary Mackey writes as a whole person-mind and senses-and the poems are marvelous"--Dennis Nurkse. Mackey's new collection of poems, BREAKING THE FEVER, extends Mackey's published works to 11 novels and 5 books of poetry. "The poetry in BREAKING THE FEVER offers truths both personal and political, visions both actual and imaginatively broad. Ranging in setting from her childhood Indianapolis to a Brazilian favela, in subject from ecological tragedy to marital passion to the thoughts of a thoroughly contemporary Leda, Mary Mackey's crisp-edged perceptions are set down in this new collection of poems with a sensuous, compassionate, and utterly unflinching eye"--Jane Hirshfield.

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“Mary Mackey’s crisp-edged perceptions are set down in this new collection of poems with a sensuous, compassionate, and utterly unflinching eye.” Jane Hirshfield, author of Given Sugar, Given Salt “Mary Mackey writes as a whole person—mind and senses—and the poems are marvelous.” Dennis Nurkse, author of Burnt Island “Breaking the Fever is a stunning book.” Marge Piercy, author of Colors Passing Through Us

About the Author:

Mary Mackey is a much-published and acclaimed novelist and poet. Her most recent novel, her eighth, is The Notorious Mrs. Winston, a love story set in the American Civil War; her forthcoming novel is The Widow's War. Her latest book of poetry is Breaking the Fever. She is also the author of several film scripts, including the award-winning feature Silence, and she is a former president of the West Coast branch of PEN.

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