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Informationen zum Autor Joan Logghe has lived a life of poetry in La Puebla, New Mexico, where she and her husband, Michael, built their solar houses, raised three children, have five grandkids, and one great grandson. She has taught extensively all ages, from UNM-Los Alamos to children in central Europe. She has led a yearly workshop at Ghost Ranch since 1990, taught at Santa Clara Pueblo day school, and, for 21 years, at the Santa Fe Girls' School. Over and over, she has experienced the salutary power of poetry. She has run art and writing workshops, AIDS writing circles, and workshops for crisis, illness, and loss. Joan was Santa Fe's Poet Laureate from 2010-2012. She has inspired and edited countless books by children and adults and served as Poetry Editor for Peggy O'Mara's Mothering Magazine for many years. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants, a Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship, and a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant. Klappentext This poetry collection showcases all the features of Joan Logghe's work that have attracted so many readers: her attention to detail, her warmth, humor, and passionate and inclusive social conscience. At once postmodern and deeply rooted in her adopted northern New Mexico home, Logghe's work connects disparate events and objects."I named my last child Hope. I never had a last child," she writes in the poem "True or False."Television Is the Golden Calf I read aboutIn Sabbath School. My teacher lied.We live on the northern edge of the Sonorous desert.Armageddon is a small lizard that reconstitutes at first rain.Turtles have an aversion to helium because they are heavyhearted. "Joan Logghe is one of the most exciting poets in America today. Her words sing, slide, slip, & jive. I love everything by Joan."--Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones
