Sunset Cue

by Angie Macri

Winner of the 2021 Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize. The poems collected in SUNSET CUE have a rare, mystical quality. Through her observant eye, love of science and nature, and poetic alchemy, Angie Macri transmutes her subjects-red-winged blackbirds, a garden at the end of fall, children at play-from the physical into the metaphysical. Poetry.

86 pages, Paperback

Published April 12, 2022

About the author

Angie Macri was born and raised in southern Illinois, where her mother's family has lived for more than two centuries. After studying at the University of Arkansas, she has worked in Arkansas as a technical writer and educator. An Arkansas Arts Council fellow, she lives in Hot Springs. Her poems have been included in Arts & Letters, Cimarron Review, New Madrid, The Southern Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and other journals. Her chapbook Fear Nothing of the Future or the Past, which works with H.D.'s Helen in Egypt, the mounds around Helena, Arkansas, and the paintings of Carroll Cloar, was published by Finishing Line Press. Underwater Panther, her first full-length book publication, won the Cowles Poetry Book Prize.

Reviews

[Allison · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this tender but tough book of poetry. I especially appreciated the poems about parenthood. The analogies to the natural world always worked. I'm glad I got to spend time with this book.