a cappella: selected and new poems
a cappella
selected and new poems
by anne mckay
$10.95
- Spring 1994
- ISBN 978-0-921870-24-1 (0-921870-24-8)
- 6″ x 9″ Trade Paperback, 120 pages
- Poetry
These poems employ the short lyric as it derives from the haiku tradition. Through progressions of image clusters, anne mckay captures states of experience that elude the conscious mind: “but young / was there / . . . and heat / hung with scarlet hurry / and gates forgotten / under sly and hunting moons / of summer hurting.” A high point of the collection is the sequence celebrating the life and paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe.
“Music and magic . . . her haiku and longer poems blending, an almost organic unity, probably the most lyrical being written today.”
— LeRoy Gorman, Poetry Canada Review
“She casts a spell through her use of language . . . like an incantation, as if a shaman spoke, as if performing magic . . . a resonance that increases reading after reading.”
— Wally Swist, Modern Haiku
“Astonishing street songs arrived in my mail one morning and started tossing light and color all over the place.”
— Cor van den Heuvel, Frogpond
“Renga partners share an affinity with dance partners . . . mckay loves whole-body dancing, intuiting the subtle threads of human nature connecting flesh to bone . . . don’t sit out this dance, renga never felt so good.”
— Terri Lee Grell, Mirrors
