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    Why Photographers Commit Suicide
    Why Photographers Commit Suicide
    Why Photographers Commit Suicide
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    Why Photographers Commit Suicide

    By Mary McCray

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    Why Photographers Commit Suicide explores, in small narratives and lyrical poems, the American idea of Manifest Destiny, particularly as it relates to the next frontier—space exploration. Mary McCray examines the scientific, psychological and spiritual frontiers enmeshed in our very human longing for space, including our dream of a space station on Mars. These poems survey what we gain and what we lose as we progress towards tomorrow, and how we can begin to understand the universal melancholy we seem to cherish for what we leave behind, the lives we have already lived. McCray unearths our feelings about what it means to move ahead and stake out new territory, and what it means to be home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMary McCray
    Release dateOct 22, 2012
    ISBN9781301952533
    Why Photographers Commit Suicide
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    Mary McCray

    Mary McCray is the author of St. Lou Haiku from Timberline Press and co-creator of the web-zine Ape Culture. She also blogs about pop culture as Cher Scholar. Mary has poems and essays published in journals such as Phoebe (The Journal of Gender and Cultural Critiques), The South Carolina Review, Literal Latte, Mudfish, Book/Mark, and Hermenaut (The Journal of Heady Philosophy). She lives in New Mexico with her husband, archaeologist John McCray, and their two fur-kids. To connect with Mary visit her online at www.marymccray.com.

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      Why Photographers Commit Suicide - Mary McCray

      Introduction

      Mary McCray is a trailblazer in science fiction poetry. Why Photographers Commit Suicide is an ingenious vision of a future in which life on Mars resembles life on Earth as we know it, although it is also like living in a test tube. Presented in a voice as natural and relaxed as an afternoon at the country club, these poems are also a satire of life on this planet: Come see Mars…You’ll be bargaining for artifacts/drinking Martian Margaritas/and writing free verse.

      There is also some wonderful personification of the solar system: A couple of stars, she and her husband/revolve around each other/so deferentially. In this vision of the future so much like the present, every effort has been made by the authorities to transform the barren Martian desert into a familiar landscape.

      McCray cleverly compares the new world of Mars with that discovered by Lewis and Clark: A new world spread/like a blanket over the old. Even living birds have been imported who reliably start waking up souls. Holograms of popular figures, including Sacajawea who has been resurrected as a pop singer, walk through crowds. One fan notes, Sacajawea, how empty space is/when you go off the air.

      Focusing on the impossible mysteries of Mars, McCray not only explores life on Mars, but the life of those left behind on a more familiar planet, our own. This unusual collection heralds the arrival of a poet whose vision is distinctly unique and fascinating.

      Howard Schwartz, Summer 2012

      Preface

      Poetry is organized thought, meticulously organized thought. A poet maneuvers and organizes the many modes of thinking: sub-conscious, logical, metaphorical and metaphysical. The best quality of poetry is a smooth combination of all forms of thinking and although there is what we call an art and a craft involved, writers are only as good as their best thoughts, their best deductions, their best theories, and their most amazing connections between disparate ideas.

      Although I am not a scientist or very strong with numbers, I have always felt there was a scientific process to a poet’s thinking and I have always loved to watch human beings working through their strategies and predicaments, be they detectives putting together clues in a movie, chemist-chefs fixing recipes for a dinner party, psychologists trying to make sense out of a zeitgeist, mathematicians crunching numbers for Sudoku, or a designer creating an entire outfit out of old typewriter ribbon. None of these efforts strike me as any more or less interesting than a human mind organizing ideas and solving problems in verse.

      Problem solving is our common task. Every

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