She Heads into the Wilderness
Our world needs poetry that can speak openly of body and spirit their desire to live. It needs poetry that can speak to our difficult time about our cohabitation with nature.She Heads into the Wildernessis an important book as well as a beautiful one. It is populated by beasts, insects, birds, human children and men, growing-and-dying things, and among them walks an open-eyed woman who happens to be a gifted poet. Is she our foremother Eve? Yes and no, no and yes. Read her words. Walk alongside her. Line by line, phrase by phrase, take pleasure and wisdom from Anne Marie Macari's radiant poems. --Alicia Ostriker