Heaven Beneath
Anne Marie Macari

Walking through the landscape of loss, the poems of Heaven Beneath explore the parallel ongoing degradation and destruction of the planet and its creatures. Beneath “paved-over space,” in the deep currents of a river, or the shadows of great trees, there’s another world, there’s a heaven—unknowable, in the muck, yet alive and with us.  

“This is a book of witness and gathering. A book of mourning and wonder. A book that has its hands reaching out to you, and its soul reaching into the earth.”
—Ross Gay

“Rare in contemporary poetry, the lyric of supplication encounters acute location and mesmerizing eroticism…”
—Judith Vollmer

Anne Marie Macari is the author of five books of poems, including Red Deer, She Heads Into the Wilderness, and Ivory Castle, which won the APR/Honickman first book prize, chosen by Robert Creeley. Her poems and essays have been widely published in magazines. She lives in New York City. 

Paperback / $15.95 (Can $21.95) / ISBN 978-0-89255-512-3 / 88 pages / Poetry