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Breath On A Coal
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781734820898
Publisher: Friedrich Petzel Gallery
Published: Aug 24 2022
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.17 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Winner of the 2021 Halcyon Award from Middle Creek Publishing
Praise for Breath on a Coal In Breath on a Coal, Anne Haven McDonnell writes of what is transient and enduring, with intense focus, lyrical precision, and emotional expanse, in poems that are grounded in landscape and 'inscape.' This is a marvelous debut.-Elizabeth Bradfield, author of Interpretive Work and Approaching Ice. Anne Haven McDonnell's sinuous, lush language captures the transient nature of existence in narratives that combine revelatory beauty with compassionate wisdom. Her deep knowledge of the earth-gathered from countless hours listening to what elk on the mountain might be saying, to what salmon in the riverbed might be whispering-teaches us the ways we are transformed by other living beings. I put on my antlers in the sun. / I walk through the dark gates of the trees,
-Todd Davis, author of Coffin Honey and Native Species
The exquisite poems in Anne Haven McDonnell's Breath on a Coal are concerned with wholeness and intimacy and are made out of direct encounter with the more-than-human world with extraordinary sensitivity and directness. A slug with its eyes of boneless horns glistening along a black road like something just born. Later, a sunlit blizzard of seed/blowing off cottonwoods. The startling truth of I forget sometimes/how trees look at me with the generosity/of water. One moment, your attention is caught by riveting textures and meticulous observations of the living world; the next, you find yourself exhaling with an achingly clear grief. The poems in this collection breathe close enough to the coals that meaning flares up in every line. And life rises in all its pain and beauty from these pages.
-Jenny George, author of The Dream of Reason
-James Thomas Stevens, author of Combing the Snakes from His Hair ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, NM where the high desert meets the southernmost Rocky Mountains, the Sangre de Cristo range. She teaches as associate professor in English and Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her poetry has been published in Orion Magazine, The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, Nimrod Journal, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. Her poems won the fifth annual Terrain.org poetry prize, second place in Narrative Magazine's 12th Annual Poetry Contest, and second place for the Gingko international ecopoetry prize. Anne received a special mention for a 2022 Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook Living with Wolves was published with Split Rock Press in fall 2020. Anne Haven holds an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and has been a writer-in-residence at the Andrews Forest Writers' Residency and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She helps edit poetry for the journal Terrain.org.
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