Early ReviewersLily Iona MacKenzie
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At the beginning of 2012, in my seventy-second year, I decided to return to Jungian analysis. I felt it was time to explore my fears of aging and dying.
In Dreaming Myself into Old Age, I hope that reflecting on my final years will help me to better understand my maturing process and deepen it. Perhaps, in sharing this progression, my readers will make their own discoveries, as has been true for me whenever I’ve read about someone else’s journey. But I also believe that aging offers its own mysteries for us to uncover, and that is part of my quest as well. Dreaming Myself into Old Age is a memoir set within my lifelong process of self-discovery and the boundless adventure that is life.
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Lily Iona MacKenzie's unbounded zest for life sings through the poems in this collection. A writer in her bones and a dreamer in her heart, she discovers the poetry in everything—travel, art, music, nature, past and present-her words and rhythms touch the soul and leave their treasures behind.
"Listen closely to these poems’ quiet but insistent murmur. Lily Iona Mackenzie meditates on the textures of her California neighborhood as well as distant lands—Italy, Spain, Russia, Mali. Her poems lovingly embrace jazz, classical music, four paintings by Matisse, a grandfather’s voice, a 3-year-old niece. With concision and lucidity, she writes of bird nests destroyed by cutting nearby trees and how ‘Age cuts into us,’ and she ‘leans on form and shape/ to arrive at an understanding of’ desire, anxiety, time, the mysteries beneath the sea and, really, everywhere. Each poem offers surprising images and perceptions, and collectively they answer ‘The Artist’s Call’—to ‘capture these/ fleeting days/ on earth.’ What a gorgeous book!" —Kathleen McClung
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