The Year the Horses Came by Mary Mackey
Volume One of The Earthsong Trilogy evokes the moment in pre-history when marauding nomads brought horses, male gods, and war to a goddess-worshipping Europe that had known peace for thousands of years. Against this perilous backdrop, a passionate, dangerous love develops between Marrah, a gifted priestess, and Stavan, one of the invading warriors.A researcher's precision combined with storytelling magic.
--Marija Gimbutas, author of The Civilization of the Goddess
--Marge Piercy, author of Woman on the Edge of Time
Mary Mackey has a BA from Harvard and a doctorate from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. Her published works include eight collections of poetry, four of which are from Marsh Hawk Press--THE JAGUARS THAT PROWL OUR DREAMS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1974 TO 2018 (2018), winner of the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for the Best Book Published by a Small Press; TRAVELERS WITH NO TICKET HOME (2014); SUGAR ZONE (2011); and BREAKING THE FEVER (2006)--and fourteen novels, one of which was named to The New York Times Bestseller List She won the Josephine Miles Prize for Literary Achievement from the Oakland PEN in 2012. Maxine Hong Kingston, Wendell Berry, Jane Hirsfield, and D. H. Lawrence have all commended her poems, which have been featured four times in The Writer's Almanac. Nurkse, Ron Hansen, Dennis Schmitz, and Marge Piercy were chosen for their exceptional beauty, precision, creativity, and range.
Japanese, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, and Finnish are just a few of the languages Mackey's books have been translated into. She is previous president of the West Coast branch of PEN, a Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and Professor Emeritus of English at California State University Sacramento. She is a co-founder of the Feminist Writers Guild with Adrienne Rich and Susan Griffin, and co-founder of the California State University Sacramento Creative Writing Program. She has been traveling to Brazil with her husband, Angus Wright, who writes on land reform and environmental issues, for over twenty-five years. The Sophia Smith Special Collections Library in Northampton, Massachusetts, holds her literary papers.
The Smith College Mortimer Rare Book Collection houses her collection of rare editions of small press poetry books by Northern California poets.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780595311163 |
| ISBN 10 | 0595311164 |
| Title | The Year the Horses Came |
| Author | Mary Mackey |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | iUniverse |
| Year published | 2004-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 396 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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