| We are pleased to introduce a distinctive voice in Kentucky poetry with Barbara Mabry's In My Own Voice, a forty-year anthology of poems. Mabry is an accomplished poet who gives voice and depth to the broad array of life's experiences, joys and sorrows in this book-length collection of poems. Reared in Knoxville, Tennessee, she and her husband, Dr. C. Charlton Mabry, have lived in Lexington, Kentucky for forty-six years.
Acclaim for In My Own Voice:
Many careful people keep diaries; a few write poems...in well-chosen words, buttressed by haunting photographs artfully screened behind her poems, Barbara Mabry has spoken to, as well as for, all of us in this book. - Loyal Jones
Varied in tone, subject, and setting, Mabry's poems give us what she calls "a field trip" of her life...asking the heart's deep questions. - GeorgeElla Lyon
Anyone who reads these poems will wholeheartedly agree that, as Emily Dickinson once put it, "This was a poet." - Ben Pickard
The real subject of Barbara Mabry's In My Own Voice is the impulse to metaphor, the persistence of poem-making in the life of a singular woman...With the publication of this rich body of work, Barbara Mabry will surely be remembered as "a maker of poems." - Leatha Kendrick
This poet's eye is sharp, her heart is wide awake, and her poems speak truths...Her book is a blessing, an affirmation of a life heartily relished. - Jane Gentry Vance, Kentucky Poet Laureate
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