books

Mid-life

Published by Finishing Line Press, mid-life is Ana María Caballero’s first stand-alone poetry chapbook. At its heart is the grueling intersection of birth and death that occurs at mid-life, when parents decline, children appear and marriages settle. Launched at beloved Miami independent bookseller Books & Books in 2017, it is available for purchase via Amazon and Finishing Line Press.

listen

Revel

Pelican

Paco

Morning Feed

Mercury retrograde

Bathroom talk

Yellow Tomatoes

Another Airport Poem

A Notion of Marriage

The suffering game

reviews

“Ana María Caballero’s poems take us inside a wild and fierce intellect that, like a house, is on its surface well-ordered and welcoming. Beyond that manicured outward appearance, however, lies the complexity of its domestic life, a life that Caballero explores with an enviable amount of courage”.

P. SCOTT CUNNINGHAM
Creator, O,Miami Poetry Festival

“Nursing, peeing, death, getting drunk, and turning the lights down—Ana Maria Caballero finds wonderful poetry in both prosaic and transcendent moments of motherhood, marriage, life”.

WILLIAM EATON
Editor, Zeteo

“Ana María Caballero’s new collection is a celebration of diminishing innocence and growing wisdom that is indicative of mid-life. Touching upon tenderness, motherhood, anguish and partnership, these poems are as rhythmic as the moods of a newborn child ...”.

WENDY GIST
Author of Moods of the Dream Fog Co-founder of Red Savina Review