Singing Under Snow

“‘Stick with me,’ invites Anne Haven McDonnell. Those who do will be rewarded with poems that light up a path toward a deep ecology of care that, if one opens as fully as possible to the connections, losses, and generous beauty of the world, can rise from the mycelium we walk. In piñon, along Douglas fir, over lichen, beside elk, always with mushrooms, McDonnell’s poems live and breathe and listen to lovers, fish, mothers, and owls, always with a fluidity of self that allows new connections, new songs.” —Elizabeth Bradfield, author of SOFAR: Poems and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry

“Anne Haven McDonnell writes wise and striking poems about the most intimate forms of love—for lichen and pine marten, for beetle-killed pines and Lazuli Bunting, for her mother and lost lovers. To understand her place in the world, she tells us she is undomesticated, she is queer, and her spirit draws near in such naming and claiming, draws us closer to the beauty and suffering of this living world where ‘everything is singing.’ This is a poet who can teach us to love the world better by listening to the sound of elk hooves on river cobble.” —Todd Davis, author of Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems

“Singing Under Snow is full of radiant, intimate poems with their own unique mycelial logic: metabolizing grief into meaning and reacquainting us with the deep intelligence of the earth. With this collection Anne Haven McDonnell has created an astonishing poetics of kinship, mourning, and belonging in a time of ecological unraveling. These poems are simply exquisite.” —Jenny George, author of After Image and The Dream of Reason