Houston, Texas – June 1, 2023 – Press Release: Saint Julian Press is proud to announce a new book of poetry by author Anne McCrary Sullivan. Notes from a Marine Biologist’s Daughter renders in poems the inheritance of a mother’s love of the wild, love of language, love of family. Loss, grief, and recovery resolve in a closely observed, deeply felt connection to nature.
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Notes from a Marine Biologist’s Daughter introduces the reader to a rich and varied lexicon of the natural world, its inhabitants, and the poet’s interaction and close relationship with the same. These poems pay deep attention: to paddling in the Everglades, walking in the neighborhood, and indelible childhood memories. Nature is a never-ending source of remarkable occurrences for this poet-naturalist. We have new eyes for our world, reading this enthralled insightful collection.
—K. Alma Peterson
The Last Place I Lived Was There No Interlude When Light Sprawled the Fen |
What an extraordinary book! It struggles and accepts, it frets and studies, and then, pleased, relaxes into knowing. It is filled not only with Anne McCrary Sullivan's knowledge of botany but with loving tributes to her mother and grandmother, memories of her father, lost when she was a girl. These poems tremble the heart and, at the same time, teach the world -- of plants and flowers and trees. This book opens its arms to the world: “I am the tree, rooted and sturdy, I am the wind passing through." // “I am dust, I am desert, my banks overflow with flood.”
Anne McCrary Sullivan is a naturalist by temperament and by training, and her responses to the world — and to her foremothers — are large and generous and teach you more about the natural world than you knew you needed: “Our name is earth. Our name is sea. Our name is air.” It is a pleasure to welcome this extraordinary poet's new work into the world.
Anne McCrary Sullivan is a naturalist by temperament and by training, and her responses to the world — and to her foremothers — are large and generous and teach you more about the natural world than you knew you needed: “Our name is earth. Our name is sea. Our name is air.” It is a pleasure to welcome this extraordinary poet's new work into the world.
—Deena Linett
When I Was Water
Translucent When Fired
When I Was Water
Translucent When Fired
Notes from a Marine Biologist’s Daughter made me want to bow down and tap dance at the same time. It left me with a powerful (and lasting) feeling that, not only are we surrounded by quiet and not-so-quiet miracles, but we live inside and within a vast, complex, wonderfully inexplicable and explicable Being (called whatever you wish). There’s no pantheism or fancy posturing here. Just the astounding beauty of reality. This work convinces me that poetry is not at the heart of everything. It is the heart of everything.
—Patricia Corbus
Finestra’s Window
Winner of the 2015
Off the Grid Poetry Prize
Finestra’s Window
Winner of the 2015
Off the Grid Poetry Prize
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne McCrary Sullivan grew up on Wrightsville Sound in southeastern North Carolina. She taught high school and raised two sons in Texas, then had a second career in university teaching. Along the way, she earned an MFA in Poetry from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and a Ph.D. in English Education from the University of Florida. In 2012-2013 she was a Fulbright Scholar in Calabar, Nigeria.
Living now on the Gulf Coast of Florida, she is a Florida Master Naturalist, wilderness canoeist, and writer. Her books include Ecology II: Throat Song from the Everglades and Learning Calabar: Notes from a Poet’s Year in Nigeria. She is co-author with Holly Genzen of Paddling the Everglades Wilderness Waterway and The Everglades: Stories of Grit and Spirit from the Mangrove Wilderness.
Anne McCrary Sullivan grew up on Wrightsville Sound in southeastern North Carolina. She taught high school and raised two sons in Texas, then had a second career in university teaching. Along the way, she earned an MFA in Poetry from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and a Ph.D. in English Education from the University of Florida. In 2012-2013 she was a Fulbright Scholar in Calabar, Nigeria.
Living now on the Gulf Coast of Florida, she is a Florida Master Naturalist, wilderness canoeist, and writer. Her books include Ecology II: Throat Song from the Everglades and Learning Calabar: Notes from a Poet’s Year in Nigeria. She is co-author with Holly Genzen of Paddling the Everglades Wilderness Waterway and The Everglades: Stories of Grit and Spirit from the Mangrove Wilderness.
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Publication Date: June 1, 2023
Paperback: $18.00 Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. Language: English Paperback: 102 pages ISBN-13: 978-1955194143 For an advance copy, contact: Ron Starbuck or Anne McCrary Sullivan. Notes from a Marine Biologist's Daughter - SJP Press Release PDF
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