Venus and Other Losses

Venus and Other Losses

👓 Lucia Galloway
Venus and Other Losses

Venus and Other Losses

✅ Out of Venuss astonished torso, rises an unsparing consummation of loss - the scent of cedar, the map that answers long-asked questions... Galloway blesses deaths dark horizon not with a singular name, but with the blushed patina of skin and story fleshing out loves ubiquitous fragility. Maureen Alsop, author of Apparition Wren and The Diction of Moths Ekphrasis, myth, childhood, and the larger history of our times are all skillfully blended in these poems that combine a strong lyric gift with craft and narrative invention. Lucia Galloways Venus and Other Losses would be a fine addition to any poetry collection. Richard Garcia, author of Rancho Notorious and The Persistence of Objects, BOA Editions In Bending Water, Lucia Galloway, in the guise of a 9th century Japanese woman, writes My pen...must singSo that my poem will welcomeFloating bird, cup of sake. Galloways pen sings clear as a bell throughout this collection, and the poems that issue forth are welcoming, indeed--they embrace every aspect of life, from seed to bare branch. They also embrace every aspect of form; Galloway slips between sonnet and free verse and hymn meter with masterful fluidity, playing expertly with persona and time period, mining art and music and literature and nature for inspiration, along with deeply personal experience and memory. These are poems born of curiosity, of bewilderment, of wonder; while they plum...



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