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Sonnets for Christ the King
From the only American winner of the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition
A dramatic and uplifting sequence of traditional English sonnets composed in the “grand manner,” the Sonnets for Christ the King are a lyrical journey through love, death, and the passage of time, climaxing in Christ’s Passion.
“Sonnets for Christ the King is a remarkably accomplished and aesthetically polished work…MacKenzie is as necessary to us as is air to a suffocating man…”
—Dr. Joseph Salemi, New York University and Hunter College, Editor, Trinacria poetry review.
“…some of the best sonnets, and so poetry, published since World War II…this is major poetry by a major poet.”
—James Sale, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, poet, author, and critic.
“The distinctive qualities this poet shows are truly remarkable!”
—Samuel Gilliland, Scottish bard and lyric poet, Winner of the MacDiarmid Tassie.
Inspired by the ancient faith of his native New Mexico, Joseph Charles MacKenzie preserves a 400-year old heritage of Nuevamexicano poetry as the region’s first, traditional lyric poet of Christian inspiration since Fray Angélico Chávez.
MacKenzie’s poetry has appeared in The New York Times, The Scotsman (Edinburgh), The Independent (London), Trinacria (New York), and the Society of Classical Poets. He has received notice in the Times Literary Supplement and US News and World Report.
A dramatic and uplifting sequence of traditional English sonnets composed in the “grand manner,” the Sonnets for Christ the King are a lyrical journey through love, death, and the passage of time, climaxing in Christ’s Passion.
“Sonnets for Christ the King is a remarkably accomplished and aesthetically polished work…MacKenzie is as necessary to us as is air to a suffocating man…”
—Dr. Joseph Salemi, New York University and Hunter College, Editor, Trinacria poetry review.
“…some of the best sonnets, and so poetry, published since World War II…this is major poetry by a major poet.”
—James Sale, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, poet, author, and critic.
“The distinctive qualities this poet shows are truly remarkable!”
—Samuel Gilliland, Scottish bard and lyric poet, Winner of the MacDiarmid Tassie.
Inspired by the ancient faith of his native New Mexico, Joseph Charles MacKenzie preserves a 400-year old heritage of Nuevamexicano poetry as the region’s first, traditional lyric poet of Christian inspiration since Fray Angélico Chávez.
MacKenzie’s poetry has appeared in The New York Times, The Scotsman (Edinburgh), The Independent (London), Trinacria (New York), and the Society of Classical Poets. He has received notice in the Times Literary Supplement and US News and World Report.
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Joseph Charles MacKenzie
2 books6 followersJoseph Charles MacKenzie is the only American to have won the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, as noted in The Times Literary Supplement (January, 27, 2017) and was nominated in the United States for the Pushcart Prize.
MacKenzie taught English in a traditional French lycée while living in Paris where he was Poet in Residence at the Club des Poètes and a paid literary consultant for director Vicky Messica's production, "Rimbaud et Verlaine," at the Théâtre des Déchargeurs.
A traditional Catholic and Thomist, MacKenzie studied theology and philosophy in France, Switzerland, Rome, and United States. After his final ordination in the traditional Minor Orders (Porter, Lector, Acolyte, Exorcist), he left the religious life in order to marry the beautiful and charming Lady of the Sonnets who contiues to inspire his amatory verses.
MacKenzie obtained his B.A. in literae humaniores, on completing the famous Great Books Program at St. John's College, an M.A. in French Studies with a Minor in Italian at the University of New Mexico, and an M.L.S. (Master of Library Science) from TWU's School of Library and Information Studies.
At present, MacKenzie is working on his second major sonnet sequence after the "Sonnets for Christ the King," namely, the "Sonnets for Heaven's Queen," also in Shakespearean form.
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MacKenzie taught English in a traditional French lycée while living in Paris where he was Poet in Residence at the Club des Poètes and a paid literary consultant for director Vicky Messica's production, "Rimbaud et Verlaine," at the Théâtre des Déchargeurs.
A traditional Catholic and Thomist, MacKenzie studied theology and philosophy in France, Switzerland, Rome, and United States. After his final ordination in the traditional Minor Orders (Porter, Lector, Acolyte, Exorcist), he left the religious life in order to marry the beautiful and charming Lady of the Sonnets who contiues to inspire his amatory verses.
MacKenzie obtained his B.A. in literae humaniores, on completing the famous Great Books Program at St. John's College, an M.A. in French Studies with a Minor in Italian at the University of New Mexico, and an M.L.S. (Master of Library Science) from TWU's School of Library and Information Studies.
At present, MacKenzie is working on his second major sonnet sequence after the "Sonnets for Christ the King," namely, the "Sonnets for Heaven's Queen," also in Shakespearean form.
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