In The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, Anne Merkley brings together poetry from the past forty years which has unifying motifs.

Since the poems are arranged for the most part sequentially, they reflect Anne’s journey under the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars throughout a lifetime on Earth.

Anne writes about personal identity and rites of passage, about the binaries of childhood and having children, of love and death. She ponders the interface of human culture and consciousness with universal nature and spirituality. Her language is simultaneously mystical and sensual.

Devoted to both visual and verbal arts, Anne weds these two forms in her first volume of poetry and photography. The result is a synergistic creation, which is greater than either word or image alone.