Poetry. "In SUGAR ZONE Mary Mackey takes you on a fascinating journey to the interior, somewhere between Saint Theresa's Inner Castle and the thicket of Eros��ut also a place of desperate
actuality, even if it is 'on the other side of the world.' Mackey joins other visionary poets of d矇paysement��enri Michaux in Asia, John Ash in Anatolia, Sharon Doubiago in Peru, Lorca in
Manhattan. But Mackey really seems to recover a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr籀, and death. Please read 'Cold Snap'; who but Mackey could have
written it? SUGAR ZONE authoritatively creates a language and a culture; but the lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home"��ennis Nurkse.