Metanoia

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T.S. Eliot and Tennessee Ernie Ford, Buddha and Jesus, Jung and Heidegger. Love, solitude, obliteration, the ocean and a sad neighbor who feeds pigeons. Metanoia is an aphoristically narrative poem that engages all of these, a book-length meditation on transformation, enlightenment, on opening one’s eyes. McCartney’s work evinces that journey, the junket into the self.

AUTHOR

Sharon McCartney

Sharon McCartney’s poetry has been published in numerous magazines and journals, including ‘The Fiddlehead’, ‘Prism International’, ‘Event’, ‘Grain’, ‘subTerrain’, ‘Prairie Fire’, ‘Iowa City’, and the ‘Malahat Review’. Ms. McCartney has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa, Writers’ Workshop and a law degree from the University of Victoria.

Reviews

Praise for Metanoia

“So much is revealed in so few words … It’s a book that feels light, but its delivery is heavy, and worthy of contemplation … McCartney is merciless in exposing vulnerability, but also builds an intimacy integral to Metanoia’s achievement.”—Quill & Quire, starred review

“Sharon McCartney is something else, a poet with a personal vision who, in work after work, digs deeper into the exposed tissue of her own soul.”—Numéro Cinq