Of Wilderness, Alicia Ostriker writes, “Our world needs poetry that can speak openly of body and spirit—their desire to live…. Line by line, phrase by phrase, take pleasure and wisdom from Anne Marie Macari’s radiant poems.”

Hieroglyphics of the Heart is Lawley's first poetry collection but she is already hard at work on her next, The Calligraphy of Courage forthcoming in 2012.