A Dark Wood by Marianne Burke- NWVS #187

Name: A Dark Wood by Marianne Burke- NWVS #187
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From the start, this suspense novel in twenty-six poems urges us to trail its narrators as they advance through their various afterlives. Unshattered, steady-paced, clear as day, each of the poems in A Dark Wood gives us a stop-frame scene out of fifty-some years of heavens and hells, metamorphosed family and selves. Essential information accumulates: gradually we see what the poet has been leading us toward, and throughout, Burke’s denouements are as honest as they can be.

–Elizabeth Macklin, author of You’ve Just Been Told

With profound beauty, Marianne Burke’s A Dark Wood traces the tragic loss of a child’s father followed by the quiet healing that occurs in maturity through the careful endurance of marital love. Both solace and grief are redeemed by the forest, by the brutal forgiveness and arresting allure of nature that revives and revives year after year.

–Star Black, author of Balefire

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A Dark Wood – NWVS #187

by Marianne Burke

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979-8-89990-230-7

2025

“A Dark Wood considers the impermanence in our lives that gives us an appreciation of those moments when wonder prevails.” “Imagine catching such light, like painting air / or the atmosphere before it shifts…” These poems try to “catch the light” of transcendence, the joy and sorrow, in common human experience. Partly autobiographical and lyrical in style, they explore nature, childhood, family, loss, marriage and aging.

Marianne Burke received a master’s degree in English and creative writing from Stanford University. She taught at Montclair Kimberley Academy, an independent school in Montclair, NJ, for over twenty years. Previously she worked in New York City at The New Yorker magazine and Sarah Lazin Books, a literary agency. She has held writing fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, Boulevard, and Passages North. She now lives in the Upper Valley of central New Hampshire.