If We Could Know Our Bones by Mary Carroll-Hackett
If We Could Know Our Bones, by Mary Carroll-Hackett is a 82 page collection of poetry. First edition (January 2014). Cover art by Eryk Wenziak. Design by Walter Bjorkman. Edited by Nicolette Wong. Two words--"listen; build"--nest quietly in one of the poems from Mary Carroll-Hackett's beautiful/tough/fragile collection, If We Could Know Our Bones. They are seeds from which she conjures and nurtures a world of words simple and complex; lives brief and infinite; love physical and soul-full; spirit deeply rooted in the earth and carried on the wind. "The apples don't last. She buys them anyway," she writes, and: "The only reason to live / is to give ourselves away." We do... to her poems... without hesitation-- Robert Gray, Editor, Shelf Awareness
If We Could Know Our Bones was named one of the 9 Innovative Books of 2014 by Peter Tieryas
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About the author:
Mary Carroll-Hackett earned an MFA from Bennington College. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Carolina Quarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, Pedestal Magazine, Superstition Review, Drunken Boat and The Prose-Poem Project, among others. She was a North Carolina Blumenthal Writer and winner of the Willamette Award for Fiction. Her chapbook, The Real Politics of Lipstick, won Slipstream’s 2010 poetry competition. Another, Animal Soul, was released in 2013 from Kattywompus Press. She founded and teaches in the Creative Writing programs at Longwood University. She also teaches workshops on Writing Grief and Loss, Writing the Body, and Writing the Earth at The Porches Writers Retreat in Virginia. Mary founded and edits The Dos Passos Review, Briery Creek Press, and The Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry. Most recently, she co-founded SPACES, an online magazine of art and literature. Mary is currently at work on a collection of personal essays.
Featured Excerpt in A-Minor Magazine: Four pieces from If We Could Know Our Bones
Selected publications: Red Wolf Journal Superstition Review Anomalous Press Doorknobs & BodyPaint
More about Mary Caroll-Hackett: Writing for Peace