An Evening with Anne Marie Macari

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In her heartrending sixth collection of poetry, Anne Marie Macari communes with a brother decades gone and calls out a gun-obsessed America has enabled countless similar deaths.
In Amerigun, a stunning collection of loss and rediscovery, poet Anne Marie Macari revisits her brother Edward’s long-ago death by a self-inflicted gunshot. Interweaving and disentangling her own memories and those of her family, and by reconstructing a legal and medical paper trail, Macari begins a dialogue with the dead, bringing her brother’s lost voice back to her after years of sealing herself off from him. Embedded in her story is the devastation of a culture that elevates guns and violence over the sacredness of human life. Yet, out of that devastation, Macari writes a kind of love story, renewing her connection with her brother, as well with other departed friends and family. By revisiting grief, she uncovers a deeply-felt gratitude for the world around her―and indeed for her own life.

Anne Marie Macari is the author of six books of poetry, including the forthcoming Amerigun, (Persea, ‘26), and most recently Red Deer and Heaven Beneath. Macari’s first book, Ivory Cradle won the Honickman/APR First Book Prize in 2000, chosen by Robert Creeley. With Carey Salerno she edited Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books. Her poetry and essays have been widely published in magazines such as The Iowa Review, Field, and American Poetry Review.

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