Afternoon in Cartago (October 2022)By Margaret MackinnonISBN: 978-0-912592-97-8Keywords: lyric ekphrastic Winner of the 2021 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize from Ashland Poetry Press selected by Maggie Anderson. Available from: Ashland University Bookstore | Amazon This collection of lyric poems takes us to landscapes in America, Europe, Central and South America, and other places to tell how personal experience finds meaning in the universal. We find characters from history such as Virginia Dare, William Bradford, and the wife of John Ruskin and artists such as Van Gogh. Folk tales reveal universalities as such as love, loss, and wonder. The images of these finely-crafted poems will stay with the reader long after he or she has finished the book. About the Author Margaret Mackinnon is the author of The Invented Child, winner of the Gerald Cable Book Award and the 2014 Literary Award in Poetry from the Library of Virginia. A chapbook, Naming the Natural World, was published by The Sow's Ear Poetry Review in 2018. She attended Vassar College and the University of North Carolina and completed the graduate program in creative writing at the University of Florida. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Image, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Blackbird. She leads writing workshops in Richmond, Virginia, where she lives with her family. |
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