"Best-selling author Mary Mackey became a writer by running high fevers, tramping through tropical jungles, being swarmed by army ants, and reading. In this new collection, she concentrates her passion on the threatened and injured environment, especially focusing on Latin America"--
A collection of new and critically acclaimed poetry and essays, some which appeared in such publications as The New York Times, American Book Review, and Barrow Street, and others that appear here for the first time, fulfill what the late Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Lanford Wilson called McIntosh’ s “ Gorgeous writing— so much of it is lyrical, funny and moving.” In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse offers readers 64 new, beautifully-written, profound poems by Mary Mackey, winner of the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book in the United States Published by a Small Press. In this stunning collection, Mackey unflinchingly imagines the future we will face as the Earth’ s climate changes, while at the same time offering readers inspiring poems that describe how mutual aid and love can preserve hope and joy in even the most difficult of times.
