Poetry. Lucille Lang Day was born in Oakland, California, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. In addition to poetry, she writes essays, short stories, and reviews. Her first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature from the San Francisco Foundation. "Lucille Day's stunning language in FIRE IN THE GARDEN has the metaphorical precision and complexity of Sylvia Plath, coupled with a voluptuousness that is all her own. She is afire in a world where 'White flames dance'"-Judy Wells. FIRE IN THE GARDEN is a book of beauties and mutilations, erotic intimacies, distances and mysteries, seductive dreams and sardonic deflations of our common dreamlife. It runs hot, cold and shivery, and will keep surprising you with the 'taste of ash' on its lips"-Alicia Suskin Ostriker. Day's books INFINITIES and WILD ONE are also available from SPD.

Fire in the Garden

Literature & Fiction

Day, Lucille Lang

Poetry

Mother's Hen

Poetry. Lucille Lang Day is a jack-of-all-trades and her multitude of talents and interests shines through in her new collection of poetry, WILD ONE. "No one writes poems quite like Lucille Day's sharp-edged, witty, ironic poems; laugh-out-loud funny poems; startling, disquieting, slightly sinister poems; gorgeously wrought, lyrical poems. With unique combination of gifts--including the precision of a mathematician, a botanist's powers of observation, the memoirist's eye for the critical detail--Day captures the moment midair and pins it to the page. WILD ONE is a wonderful collection of those moments"--Marcia Falk.

Wild One

Scarlet Tanager Books

The seventy-four poems in Lucille Lang Day's Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place take the reader on a journey across continents, seas, and time itself. Charged with a lyricism that is at the same time tough and vulnerable, the poems recreate and preserve images of a beauty that is on the verge of disappearing or has already disappeared. Sometimes it is the beauty of the rain forests of Costa Rica or the birds of the Galápagos or that of cities like Athens, San Miguel de Allende, or Venice in flood. Sometimes it is a beauty that exists only in a single word such as "Oregon, ...from wauregan, an Algonquian word for 'beautiful river.'" Yet for all the beauty she evokes, Day does not shy away from difficult topics like global warming, genocide, regret, loss, and death. The result is a remarkable collection of poems that are deeply layered, deeply felt, and deeply moving. Lucille Lang Day has published six previous full-length poetry collections, including Becoming an Ancestor, and four chapbooks, including Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems. She is also a coeditor of two anthologies, Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, and the author of two children's books, Chain Letter and The Rainbow Zoo, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her books have received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature, the Blue Light Poetry Prize, and two PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Literary Awards; her poems, short stories, and essays have received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies. The founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, she received her MA in English and MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University, and her BA in biological sciences, MA in zoology, and PhD in science/mathematics education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place

Blue Light Press

Poetry. "Like any true poet, Lucille Lang Day scans the outer world of jungles and stars for clues to the inner universe of feeling and thought. She does this by exploring scientific language and ideas for hints-metaphors, facts, images-that might reveal something about the meaning of personal experience. Her poems are eloquent, imaginative, and informed by a knowledge of contemporary science. The creation she honors is God's, the vast ineffable realm of macro-and-microscopic nature. By doing this she honors as well the persistent, equally ineffable mystery of the human realm"-Kurt Brown.

Infinities

Cedar Hill Books

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Fire in the Garden

Wild One

Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place

Infinities