The Sky Is Shooting Blue Arrows
104 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:01 Sep 2014
ISBN:9780826354938
The Sky Is Shooting Blue Arrows
Poems
By Glenna Luschei; Edited by Noel Woodward
University of New Mexico Press
Glenna Luschei’s poems take her and her readers around the world, including to Tunisia and Colombia, but in the end they return to center on the American West, where her heart lies. Celebrating life, travel, aging, and nature, this new book shines with Luschei’s view of the world.
The Sky Is Shooting Blue Arrows is filled with such a vivid and tactile sense of place—New Mexico, Turkey, the Black Hills—each poem is a bodily pleasure. The Sky Is Shooting Blue Arrows is a place you must visit, a journey you will be glad you took, a book you must read.
Glenna Luschei, writing in her ninth decade of life, has reached a place of hard-won peace. ‘We have to deal / with getting old / while the soul is always young,’ she writes. She faces many deaths: those of her parents, her lover, even her daughter. ‘I lose everything, as it’s meant to be.’ This poet shows us how love is infinite though the people we love are not, and though we ourselves must die. With grace, intelligence, and humor, this poet sings of the essence of life.
Glenna Luschei is the author of more than twenty-five books and is the founder and publisher of Solo Press. She lives in San Luis Obispo, California.
