In arid coastal areas of South America, locals hang rags outside
until they're saturated with fog. They wring out this water, all
year long, as a means of survival. They call it "harvesting fog."
And that, writes LUCI SHAW, is a lot like writing poems. In her
poems, Shaw observes and contemplates nature and humanity: "I'm
merely a floater in the eye of God." "Behold the fleck of ant... If
by observation, we become part of an insect's life, is he aware of
us?" Shaw's poems invite us to awaken the spirit of loving and
giving: "The tide that outward ebbs, turns then and inward flows,
And what I offer you, you'll multiply to me." Shaw's 10th volume of
poetry satisfies a thirsty imagination. Shaw turns the details of
our lives, the droplets, into the music of possibility. PRAISE for
HARVESTING FOG: Luci Shaw sees in the natural world a dynamic
incarnation of God's love. Luminous poems, of faith richly woven
into the fabric of daily life and change, full of surprises and
moments of delicious holy mischief.--Betsy Sholl Intensely
personal, her poems also draw deeply on the legacy she has embraced
as an heir to Herbert, Hopkins, Dickinson, and others whose shadows
fall gently across her lines, giving them texture and adding to
their quiet contemporary beauty.--Marilyn McEntyre Envision a long
life through imaginative changes of lens. Light becomes a bookish
beetle, the Infant Jesus is "a small sack of God," and idea is "a
glitter of ash" to be flung over the ocean.--Jeanine Hathaway One
might argue with Heidegger that only in poetry can Being achieve
adequate articulation, find a "local habitation and a name," become
known. For Shaw, whose poems so brilliantly and movingly locate
authentic Being in the forms and processes of nature, the lyric
impulse often approaches the incarnational.--B.H.Fairchild
Sacramental poems offer nourishment for the starving soul with a
topping of delightful whimsy, a "bowlful of cool" in the
face.--Paul Willis
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