Peter McNamara

Peter McNamara's ten poetry collections include "Eating Up Light" (2022), "that end/not end" (2020), and "Recurrent Dawn" (2019). His "Sixteen Poems" is a selection from earlier published books including "Quickened Dark" (2017) and "Orbits' Crossing" (2013). His books are published by St. Andrews Press and are available from Amazon.

As a lyricist/librettist his notable work includes "East River Bridge," an opera performed for the Brooklyn Bridge centennial, and "Anthem of Love and Hope," a choral ode for AIDS sufferers. As well, he has translated poetry of Pablo Neruda, Garcia Lorca and Pierre Reverdy.

"Peter McNamara is an aesthete of fine painterly detail . . . a lyric and meditative mode oscillating between intensity and languor . . . his language is always bewitching" --Ange Mlinko, author of "Marvelous Things Observed"

"Fruits of a lifetime devoted to keen observation and honest, direct reporting . . . honoring what it means to be human."

--Jim Haba, founding director, Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival

"Encounters with place . . . where every leaf pierces and every stone has a story. He seizes beauty in surprising moments."

--Daphne Athas, author of "Entering Ephesus"