Mary AllenVezi magazinul LibrisMary Allen is the author of The Rooms of Heaven , published by Alfred A.
Knopf and Vintage Books.
She received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 2002.
Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers , Tiferet , Real Simple , Library Journal , CNN On-line, The Chaos , Shenandoah , Spoon River Poetry Review , and in the anthology If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings .
She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught at the University of Iowa.
She lives in Iowa City and is a full-time writing coach.
ENDORSEMENTS Mary Allen's effortlessly original voice addresses the reader with startling simplicity and moral clarity, whether she is introducing us to the tender friendship between a young woman and a celebrated octogenarian, or allowing us to see through her eyes the beautiful solemnity of monks at their devotions, or tracing her own strange citizenship in the liminal realm of a disrupted childhood and the years that follow.
Simply put, read this book.
Allen's beguiling and brilliant writing will leave you exhilarated.
-Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Days A snarl of honeybees in a parcel at the post office evokes a mother's long-ago rage; a medical insurance crisis arises when a sister gives birth; past loves, an old man who was kind; Boston, Iowa City, Hawaii, speculations of the afterlife.
The Deep Limitless Air tells a life of successive revelation, evolving wisdom.
Mary Allen's prose has the freshness of the most optimistic morning.
I adore this book.
-Honor Moore, author of Our Revolution, A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury Among the reasons I love The Deep Limitless Air is that its spirituality is so light-handed and matter-of-fact and barely distinguishable from the apprehension and appreciation of ordinary life, life both lived and recalled.
Mary Allen writes about growing up with a rejecting mother, of lovers, partners, friends, and a procession of animals who summon her tender and respectful attention, of learning to bear the long silence of meditation and the joyful shout of the world.
A beautiful, funny, warm, and heartbreaking book.
-Peter Trachtenberg, author of Another Insane Devotion, On the Love of Cats and Persons Mary Allen is the author of The Rooms of Heaven , a literary memoir published by Alfred A.
Knopf and Vintage Books.
