Poet, naturalist, writer and teacher, Anne McCrary Sullivan is most at home outdoors. In recent years, her focus has been on the wilds of deep south Florida, most particularly the Everglades. "I went to the Everglades in 2003 as Poet in Residence," she writes. "I didn't know I was going to fall in love with a place that would feel like home though I had never been there before."
She grew up on Wrightsville Sound in southeastern North Carolina where her marine biologist mother took her almost daily, from her earliest years, into wilderness - both the watery wilderness of the marshlands and vast expanses of pine forest. "These early experiences marked me forever. I am always trying to get back to the wild."
In parallel lives, she has spent over a decade teaching high school and fifteen years teaching at the university level. "Teaching and writing are ways of sharing what I love." She is the mother of two sons and GranAnne to four grandchildren.
She has an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and has published poems in many journals. She believes in the power of poetry and the arts to focus attention and heighten a sense of connection with the natural world.
She has traveled widely in Europe and Africa and has also spent time in the Caribbean and in Nicaragua. She speaks French and Spanish. "I love the world." This love of the world shines in everything she writes.
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This review is from: Ecology II: Throat Song from the Everglades (Paperback)
I would recommend this book to anyone if they want to be transported to the Everglades from the eyes and ears of someone who quite obviously has a passion for the place. I did not want to put this book down, and I don't say that often- just amazing!
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Beyond nature to depth, soul and sustenance,
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This review is from: Ecology II: Throat Song from the Everglades (Paperback)
If only I could give 17 stars ... This isn't ONLY for nature lovers; this is highly crafted poetry in deceptively simple terms. These poems go deep in a spiritual and soulful sense, and this is from someone who is pretty much an indoor poet. Read "Holding On" and see if you don't find it a breathtaking metaphor for divorce, or war, or other dire oppositions. You will come back again and again to these poems -- and they will keep giving to you.
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This review is from: Ecology II: Throat Song from the Everglades (Paperback)
In the spirit of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Sullivan writes with both passion and scientific accuracy. Her poetry opens a window onto the subtlety and richness of the Everglades. Recommended for people who already love the Glades as well as for those who wish to learn more about the nature of this "river of grass."
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