Scape: Poems (Poiema Poetry)
More than a book,Scape is a sacred offering, a scape we can hold that directs our gaze and supports us, in the long, shivering road up, up. --Suzanne Paola, author,The Lives of the SaintsLuci Shaw notes in one of her new poems that, 'without the impediment / of gravity the dancer / cannot dance.' And it's just that wise understanding of the weights and balances of life that her poems get so right. . . . Such abstractions live in the particulars of an egg's brownness, a snail's glistening trail, a sparrow's 'economical and precise' pecking, and the taut feel of a trout on the line. Luci Shaw's poems incarnate the 'slow pleasure of being. --Robert Cording, author,Common LifeLuci's most witty, brilliant book. . . . One after another, these poems ground the reader utterly in the concrete and physical--and then, with the jet engine of metaphor, they take off into the world of spirit. --Jeanne Murray Walker, University of Delaware