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"Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw's 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as these poems illuminate in splendored natural detail how the seasons of creation parallel and explain the seasons of her life as a poet. Again and again, these poems shower us with glorious epiphanies from the natural world as it reflects God's generosity at work such as "spring's impossible news of green." These poems confirm that in poetry as in faith "ripeness is all." Like Wordsworth, Luci is celebrated for being a highly gifted landscape poet whose works are rich in imagery from the physical world--meadows filled with seeds, flowers, and also poems which are like "shoots" in Luci's writing life. Animals, too, great and small (beetles, cricket, and voles to bears and whales) play a major role in Luci's poetics of creation; God is likened to a great bear who leaves paw tracks for us to follow. In their deep faith and vibrant colors and designs, the poems in Generosity might be considered Luci's Book of Kells. We need to be like Luci's father who carried her poems in his briefcase to show his friends." --Philip C. Kolin, Author, Reaching Forever: Poems; Distinguished Professor of English (Emeritus), University of Southern Mississippi

ISBN-13: 9781640605145

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Paraclete Press

Publication Date: 08-01-2020

Pages: 128

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

Series: Paraclete Poetry

Luci Shaw was born in London, England, in 1928. A poet and essayist, since 1986 she has been Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver. Author of over thirty-five books of poetry and creative non-fiction, her writing has appeared in numerous literary and religious journals. In 2013 she received the 10th annual Denise Levertov Award for Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University. She lives with her husband, John Hoyte, in Bellingham, WA.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

The Need to Hold Still 12

How? 13

Virus 14

A Wild Embrace 15

Wave Action 16

Birds 17

The Plane Trees 18

"Every Creature is a Word of God" 19

Incoming Tide 21

Notes on a Cloudy Day 22

The Morning, Walking 23

The Creation 25

Moss, Orcas Island 26

While Reading The New Yorker 28

Pilgrim 29

White Space 30

Green, Springing 31

Enthusiasm 32

Heartwork 33

Dove 34

Morning Glory 35

The Meaning of Grass 37

Driving to Willapa 38

Meadow 40

Cow Sounds 41

Presence 42

The "O" in Hope 43

Free Rainfall 44

Midnight Rain 45

Language 46

First Draft 47

Rhythms 48

Modality 49

Berceuse 50

Unable to See Far 51

Dandelion 52

Lower Cataract Lake, Colorado 53

Driving to Winthrop 54

Dusk 56

Stream of Consciousness 57

Eve 58

Rumi's Request 59

The Continent of Night 60

Diurnal 61

The Weight of Air 63

Speculating 64

What My Bones Tell Me 65

Her Dementia 66

On Being Tested 67

Telling the Dream 69

Midnight 70

Voice 71

Plunge 72

The Rules 73

Few Words 75

Wild 76

Family of Origin 77

Mirror Image 79

Some Mornings 81

Waterways 82

Benefits 83

Ground Cover 84

The Birds 85

Theme and Variations 86

Sky Blue 87

Quotidian 88

The Knitting 89

Parturition 90

Peaches 91

Multiples 93

The House Insects 94

More 95

Today 96

Relinquishment 97

Scant 98

The Child 100

Dark Friday 102

Psalmody 104

God the Bear 106

Pillars of the Church 107

"The Book of Kells" 108

Prophecy 109

Midwinter 110

"Climate Change Kills Antarctic Moss" 111

Winter in Chicago, 1960 113

Inupiat 114

Doctoring, Burma 116

Immigrant 118

Gallery 120

Driving the Cascades 121

Leaving 123

Promises 124

What to Listen For 125

Acknowledgments 126