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

The Singing Bowl (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Logghe, Joan

Poetry

University of New Mexico Press

A triptych of poems focusing in turn on culture, family, and the personal landscape of marriage. With a wild and carefully-crafted voice Logghe tackles the unspeakable beauty of northern New Mexico's Espaola Valley, confronting the resistance to entering this unique territory as an outsider.

Blessed Resistance: Poems

Mariposa Printing & Pub Co

Long-term relationships are a subject we don't hear much about today, but this book of love poems is a realistic and eloquent account of marital tenacity. The fifty poems in the collection move from the earliest "Taking Vows" to deal with "The Middles" and such subjects as not committing adultery. This book was a finalist in the 1995 Western States Book Awards competition. 
"A passionate, fragrant feast, a vast embrace. I love the wacky, wise humor of these poems best of all."--Naomi Shihab Nye 
"Logghe has done more than hang her marital laundry out for everybody to see. She has touched it all with poetry in abundance and variety and with a generous heart to give it a life of its own."--Rio Grande Sun 
"In the tradition of Neruda, Joan weaves the everyday stuff of life--'Two for One Cokes,' 'Oil of Olay,' and the 'One Vine Loaded with White Grapes'--into shimmering garments of beauty. They are not one-size-fits-all, and that is the measure of their wisdom, and yes, their longevity."--Jim Sagel

Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man

La Alameda Press

Among the Spanish people who settled New Mexico four centuries ago were Jews forced into exile during the Inquisition. This series of thirty poems reveals the life of one of these crypto Jews, a Hispanic woman with a Sephardic background. Drawing on the stories and lives of actual women as well as on the author's own life in the Española Valley, these poems, written in English and translated into Spanish, are presented bilingually in this powerful book.

Sofia: Poems

History & Criticism

Poetry. LOVE &amp; DEATH selects poems from the publications of co-conspirators, friends for over twenty-five years, and founders of Tres Chicas Books Renée Gregorio, Joan Logghe, and Miriam Sagan. As poets with intertwined geographies, friendships, and loves, the poems show the threading as they've fallen in love, mourned deaths of beloveds, and let that passion inform their poetry. They deliver a triptych of poetry in one cover, hoping to create not just a book but a sense of community.

Love & Death: Greatest Hits

Sagan, Miriam

Gregorio, Renée

Tres Chicas Books

Poetry. Joan Logghe says of her book, RICE, "One night I wrote four poems on a long sheet of rice paper. I noticed they had a uniform shape and decided to give myself the pleasure of writing domestic sonnets. For two and a half years they spilled off of rice paper and into my computer. I have always played with how you can make art in the cracks of the daily, in this case the amount of time it takes for rice to cook, and at the end of the boiling, there is a poem. This book was held together by rice. It is as formal and as formless as those grains, both cooked and uncooked." "I love the sudden changes in these sonnets. Things change fast as in art or life"-Robert Bly.

Rice

Poetry. Poems composed while Joan Logghe was serving as the Poet Laureate of Santa Fe. These poems were written on site and all were written as love songs for the city and northern New Mexico, her home of 43 years. "Joan Logghe disappears in this book, she disintegrates into cloud, yellow dust, water rushing down an arroyo, snow. If you want the taste and feel of New Mexico, this book is all you need. It has large, potential magic to ground the reader into the real. The poetry is tough, boundless and immaculate."—Alvaro Cardona-Hine

Unpunctuated Awe: Poems of Santa Fe

"Such powerful medicine-the courage and love in this book. An astonishing gift to the broken world." ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of The Unfolding and All the Honey.Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2010-2012, explores the mysterious confluence of grief and beauty in her latest work, a memoir of her family's extraordinary discovery of resilience and meaning amidst profound sorrow. A family loses a child at birth. With guidance from dreams and support from their community, they weave together rituals and ceremonies that bring deep spiritual meaning into an impossibly painful time. The baby's grandmother, Joan, wrote poems and painted in bright watercolor as she worked through her own grief process. Those poems and images became the backbone of this book, which chronicles her family's navigation through the valley of death."In this luminous collection by master poet and storyteller Joan Logghe, shot through with lyrical reflections by her family and illuminated with the author's watercolor musings, we are granted access to the sacred realm of profound loss, which cannot help but transform us."~ Mirabai Starr, author of "Caravan of No Despair" and "Wild Mercy."

Jade Bird: Singing Grief

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Wild Rising Press

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