Amerigun: Poems

By Anne Marie Macari

In Amerigun, a stunning collection of loss and rediscovery, poet Anne Marie Macari revisits her brother Edward's long-ago death by a self-inflicted gunshot. Interweaving and disentangling her own memories and those of her family, and by reconstructing a legal and medical paper trail, Macari begins a dialogue with the dead, bringing her brother's lost voice back to her after years of sealing herself off from him. Embedded in her story is the devastation of a culture that elevates guns and violence over the sacredness of human life. Yet, out of that devastation, Macari writes a kind of love story, renewing her connection with her brother, as well with other departed friends and family. By revisiting grief, she uncovers a deeply-felt gratitude for the world around her--and indeed for her own life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892556366
• ISBN13: 9780892556366
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.1"