Description: 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."
Brief description: 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.