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Rosemary Daniell<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Murderous Sky:
\nPoems of Madness and Mercy<\/span><\/h3>\n

100 Pages \/\u00a0Poetry
\n978-1944884741 (pbk. $19.95)\u00a0
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March, 2021<\/p>\n

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In The Murderous Sky<\/em> Rosemary Daniell confronts with searing honesty and stunning poetry the pain of her daughter’s addiction and her son’s schizophrenia. Since giving us\u00a0A Sexual Tour of the Deep South<\/em> in 1975, Rosemary Daniell has published numerous other volumes of poetry, fiction and memoir, as well as shepherding the famous Zona Rosa writing workshops. She returns to poetry with what is perhaps her most personal and haunting book; winner of the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Poetry Award, The Murderous Sky: Poems of Madness & Mercy<\/em>\u00a0is a work that will resonate for decades to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Praise for The Murderous Sky<\/i><\/h3>\n

Rosemary Daniell is a national treasure.<\/p>\n

\u2014Bruce Feiler, New York Times<\/em>-bestselling author of The Council of Dads<\/em> and Life Is in the Transitions<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rosemary Daniell is an enormously gifted poet, novelist and non-fiction writer who has created an extraordinary body of work over the over the last two decades. Her work is risky\u2013\u2013in the best sense of the term. She brings a poet\u2019s language to her prose and great energy and daring to her poetry. She is one of the women by whom our age will be known in times to come. I can think of few writers I might recommend more whole-heartedly.<\/p>\n

\u2014Erica Jong<\/p>\n

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The world of poetry has just about recovered from the shock of a woman poet giving us A Sexual Tour of the Deep South<\/em> in 1975. As a witness to the prolonged impact of Rosemary Daniell\u2019s first, unique collection, I am astonished to be unprepared for the shock of reading The Murderous Sky\u2026. <\/em>Daniell\u2019s new collection proves that the critic Warren Austin\u2026 was right when he wrote, \u201cArt makes that beautiful which in life would be painful to view or even hear about.”<\/p>\n

\u2014David Madden, author of Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rosemary Daniell is a supreme storyteller. Exploring the ordinary in verse, she makes it belong to us all. Taking up the rare with vivid metaphor. . . Daniell digs deep into subjects like suicide, drug addiction and abuse–but also love and tenderness. Read her!<\/p>\n

\u2014Linda Gray Sexton, author of\u00a0Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton<\/em><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to say what makes Rosemary Daniell’s poetry ring so true, but it is certainly southern, totally honest, and empathic and it always has the right pitch. Whether she is laying bare the immense pain of her own daughter’s addiction, her son’s schizophrenia or of an idealist gone wrong, she is able to confront that pain and through words begin a process of healing that takes place in the reader’s own heart. Thus it is a kind of miracle\u2026. It took courage to write these poems, and it takes courage to read them.<\/p>\n

\u2014Gordon Walmsley, editor of The Copenhagen Review<\/em> and author of Braille of the Sea<\/em> and other books<\/p>\n

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If the aura of poetry is colored from the poet\u2019s palette of experience and observation, then The Murderous Sky,\u00a0<\/em>should be on display in galleries as well as in bookstores. It is that engaging, that powerful, and, yes, that visual\u2026. It begins with these words:\u00a0I had a daughter once\u2014<\/em>\u2028<\/em>\/beautiful & raven-haired\u2026<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>and what follows reads like a poetic excerpt from a revealing memoir, words of privacy that might be whispered in confessionals\u2026. Indeed, this is a signature work from a writer of rare and beautiful talent. Only a true artist is so blessed and her name is Rosemary Daniell.<\/p>\n

\u2014Terry Kay, award-winning author of Dance with the White Dog<\/em> and The Book of Marie<\/em><\/p>\n

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In this searing journey through a mother\u2019s broken heart, Rosemary Daniell\u2019s exquisitely wrought poems transmute suffering into splendor, unspeakable pain into echoing beauty, heralding redemption for both writer and readers.<\/p>\n

\u2014Joyce Zonana, author of Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile\u2019s Journey<\/em><\/p>\n

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The poems in Rosemary Daniell\u2019s new book are beautiful and heartbreaking beyond any ordinary exclamation of words.\u00a0 She manages to find the perfect balance between sharing her experiences as the insider looking outward and the outsider looking inward, building a bridge between feeling and form in towering, gut-wrenching language. This is what poetry is meant to do, and\u00a0The Murderous Sky: Poems of Madness & Mercy<\/em>\u00a0is what it looks like to do it well.<\/p>\n

\u2014Olivia Stiffler, author of\u00a0Hiding in Plain Sight<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Otherwise, We Are Safe<\/em><\/p>\n

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To read Rosemary Daniell\u2019s poetry is to see the power of love do good and do harm.\u00a0 Yes, it is love that flows through these pages, like blood — the love between a mother and daughter, the love between a mother and son.\u00a0 While we\u2019re reading poems that show us \u2018how dangerous life is,\u2019 we\u2019re also witnessing sacred things: \u201ca few yellow buds\u2026 this suddenly is enough.\u201d Rosemary Daniell is the real thing.\u00a0 I marvel at the skill and imagination and honesty behind these stunning poems.\u00a0 I just cannot overpraise this book.<\/p>\n

\u2014Judy Goldman, author of Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap<\/em><\/p>\n

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These are not poems for the faint-hearted\u2026. The Murderous Sky<\/em> is power-filled, naked and excellent beyond words.<\/p>\n

\u2014Carol Ann Russell, award-winning poet and author of The Red Envelope<\/em>, Silver Dollar<\/em> and Gypsy Taxi<\/em><\/p>\n

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Amid the endless outpourings about the pains of love, how many deal with the love of a mother for her children? What happens when\u00a0her\u00a0dreams grow into realities too terrible to be believed or comprehended? Rosemary Daniell, with deep compassion for both sides, takes us into the world of parents and children struggling with drug addiction and mental illness. Like the Book of Job, this book has the courage to face realities larger and far less comfortable than we would like. But it also shows the power of true art to help us survive and transcend.<\/p>\n

\u2014Dan Veach, founder of\u00a0the Atlanta Review<\/em> and author of\u00a0Elephant Water<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Lunchboxes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This moving and tumultuous\u00a0collection of poetry scales the mountains of emotion bound up in motherhood and mental illness. Rosemary manages to tell us the story of her daughter and her son, their lineage, and the battles she’s fought, with lyric beauty and raw emotion. The reader will come away from this book with a deeper understanding\u00a0of the ties that bind and tangle mother and child.<\/p>\n

\u2014Miriam Feldman, author of He Came in with It: A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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