The Dear Dance of Eros [Paperback]

Mary MacKey (Author)

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After Long Silence
Arabesque
Bag Lady
Betony
Blue July
The Botanical Garden
Chamber Music
Clearing The Land
Coda
Desire
Diet
Don't Put Me In Your Toaster Oven, Honey
Don't Tell Me The Sea Is A Woman
Each Day Has Its Poem
Finished
For The Duration
Hibernating At High Elevations
Hike
If Love Were A Potato, I'd Probably Be Idaho
In Indiana
Into Tenderness
The Invitation
The Japanese Garden At Oahu Airport
Juliet
The Kama Sutra Of Kindness: Position No. 1
The Kama Sutra Of Kindness: Position No. 2
Let Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
Love And Other Major Disasters
Love Junkie
Love Song
The Loves We Walk Away From
The Museum Of Unnatural History
The Music Lesson
Night Comb
On Seeing Her Lover's Beard As A Nest Of Birds
On Time
One Night Stand
Plum
A Poem For All Prisoners
Rain Dance
Rubbing Two Sticks Together
Separate Beds
Sexual War
The Shadow Puppets
The Single Life
Skin Deep
Skin Diver
Snow
Soft Soap
Third Time Under
The Torrid Zone
Turning And Turning In My Arms
Very Early In Marriages
Walking The Sea To China
We Made Love Until I Couldn't
What Do You Say When A Man Tells You
Wild Woman
The Woman In The Moon
The Yale Professor
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 149 pages
• Publisher: Fjord Pr (May 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0940242176
• ISBN-13: 978-0940242173
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,461,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Related through her father's family to Mark Twain, Mary Mackey graduated from Harvard and received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. During her twenties, she lived in the rain forests of Costa Rica. Her published works include thirteen novels and six collections of poetry.

For a number of years, she has been traveling to Brazil and incorporating her experiences into her fiction and poetry. Four of her novels (The Widow's War, The Year The Horses Came, The Horses At The Gate, and The Fires of Spring) incorporate some of the rituals of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble. In 2005 she took a boat up a tributary of the Amazon, traveling over two thousand miles through flooded jungle. In June 2009, she made another trip to one of the headwaters of the Amazon on the Rio Tocantins

Her works have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List and been translated into twelve foreign languages including Japanese, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, and Finnish. A screenwriter as well as a novelist and poet, she has sold feature-length screenplays to Warner Brothers as well as to independent film companies. John Korty directed the filming of her original award-winning screenplay Silence. The film rights to her comic novel The Stand-In were recently optioned by director Renee De Palma of OneMotion Pictures. Three times, Garrison Keillor has read her poetry on The Writer's Almanac.

At present, she lives in northern California with her husband Angus Wright, and is Professor Emeritus of English at California State University. To learn more about her you are invited to visit her webpage at: http://www.marymackey.com You can also find her on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/marymackeywriter?sk=info

For more biographical information about Mary Mackey, also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mackey

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This review is from: The Dear Dance of Eros (Paperback)

I had read just one of these poems, and on the basis of that ONE poem, I bought this slim volume - well worth the money. I'm very impressed with the writing. I should add that I rarely buy any poetry offerings. This one was special.