If We Could Know Our Bones - Paperback

by Walter Bjorkman (Author), Eryk Wenziak (Photographer), Nicolette Wong (Editor)

If We Could Know Our Bones, by Mary Carroll-Hackett is a full length, 82 page collection of poetry.
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

Author Biography

Mary Carroll-Hackett earned an MFA from Bennington College and 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, and another, Animal Soul, was released this year 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, Writing the Earth, and Writing through the Chakras 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 memoir.