About Ancient Cypress Press
With these shifting models in mind, Mary Rae created Ancient Cypress Press, providing free book design and editing, as well as a web page for each poet. Poets will have their poetry presented in beautiful volumes, and will retain control over their work. Mary Rae knows that there are many people who still enjoy the feel of a book in their hands, and who love poetry that celebrates formal structure, whether it be rhymed or blank verse. Ancient Cypress Press plans to publish four to six volumes in 2013. Each volume will be sixty to one hundred pages in length, will be perfect bound, and if possible, will have original art on the cover.
Ancient Cypress Press will be concentrating on formal, metrical poetry, with a particular interest in New Romanticism. Great poets from the past that we admire include Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, St. John of the Cross, Joyce, Hardy, Brooke, Clare, Donne, Symons, Housman, Millay, Lorca, Poe, Stevenson, Dickinson, and Wyatt, among others.
The name "Ancient Cypress" harkens back to the discovery of an ancient, petrified cypress tree uncovered during the construction of a massive shopping mall near Tysons Corner, Virginia in the 1960s. The local community was amazed to think their neighborhoods had once been part of a lush, near-tropical landscape, and a new sense of wonder for what lies beneath the ordinary world blossomed. In a similar way, Ancient Cypress Press seeks to publish poetry that unearths and celebrates beauty that may have gone unnoticed by others, bringing a sense of awe and respect for even the smallest moments in life.
Ancient Cypress Press will be concentrating on formal, metrical poetry, with a particular interest in New Romanticism. Great poets from the past that we admire include Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, St. John of the Cross, Joyce, Hardy, Brooke, Clare, Donne, Symons, Housman, Millay, Lorca, Poe, Stevenson, Dickinson, and Wyatt, among others.
The name "Ancient Cypress" harkens back to the discovery of an ancient, petrified cypress tree uncovered during the construction of a massive shopping mall near Tysons Corner, Virginia in the 1960s. The local community was amazed to think their neighborhoods had once been part of a lush, near-tropical landscape, and a new sense of wonder for what lies beneath the ordinary world blossomed. In a similar way, Ancient Cypress Press seeks to publish poetry that unearths and celebrates beauty that may have gone unnoticed by others, bringing a sense of awe and respect for even the smallest moments in life.
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