The Eyes the Window

My first collection of poems, The Eyes the Window, will be published by Sage Hill Press this year. This collection won Sage Hill's 2012 Powder Horn Prize for first books. The cover art is by my daughter Lucy.

Praise for the book:

"Reading The Eyes the Window, I have the uneasy feeling of listening in on the thoughts of a woman confronting questions of great import with subtle intelligence and nuanced observation.   What, she asks, is the nature of mortality in a universe that exists beyond the limits of our comprehension?  And what is spiritual salvation?  And against the vastness of these questions, how might we come to understand our small, vital, ever-shifting romantic relationships, the day-to-day events of our lives among other people.  These poems are intimate and expansive, constructed with dexterity, music, and skill.  Marci Rae Johnson's The Eyes the Window is a deeply moving collection of poems, one I will be happy to return to and share with others."  —Kevin Prufer

"Reflective and refractive, the poems in this shimmering collection offer us the promise of indeterminacy as solace, in a world where the Unknown and the Possible are one and the same. In Johnson’s unerring poems, what we don’t know seems a version of what we might wish—'maybe this is where / we see something beautiful,' she writes. Traveler, trust these fine poems, and this fine poet: profound comforts lie here, in the arms of language." – Alan Michael Parker