A coming of age journey told through poems; A gem-like chapbook that brings us from shadow to light, realizing nature as our greatest school.

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“…you yearn to follow into the labyrinthine mystic depths of these luxurious poems.”
– Richard Peabody, editor Gargoyle Magazine

“McCarthy’s photographic eye captures the remarkable beauty and resilience that carry us through the sorrows and mysteries of our days.”
—Michele Wolf, author of Immersion and Conversations During Sleep

“With the eye of a feminist, she asks what if, instead, it had been Icarus’s sister? Would she know how far to go? In her first collection, NOTEBOOKS FROM MYSTERY SCHOOL, McCarthy shows us that yes, she knows.”
– Susana H. Case, author of 4 Rms w Vu

Notebooks from Mystery School
Poems by Margaret McCarthy
Finishing Line Press