Blessed Resistance [Paperback]

Joan Logghe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1999

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.

Editorial Reviews

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After Our Silver Anniversary
Alone In April
Annuniciation
Another Fiesta
Art And Teenagers
At A Wedding
Between Features
Blessing
But Espanola
Catalpa
Christ In The Desert Monastery
Daughter At College
Daughter In Summer
Driving North
Espanola
Espanola Pantoum
Finally Present
Finishing Touches
Gesticulations
Ghost Town
A Giant Beauty
Her First Jew
High School Graduation Pantoum
How To Improvise Rain
I Thought It Was My Heart
Insomnia Litany
La Puebla
Land Grant
Late Vows
Leaving Seattle
Making Ends Meet
Marriage Of Heaven And Hell In Espanola
Miraculous Pantoum
Nambe Pantoum
The New Field
New Mexican Angels
Outside Pagosa Springs
Piercing
Qualicum
Quatrains For Corina
Reminiscence About The Present
Return To Espanola
Simplicity
Something Like Marriage
Speaking Of Happiness
Stolen Landscape
Summer Mysteries
Surrender
Tashlich At Embudo Crossing
This Time
To My Teenage Son
Troubadour For Peace
Valentines For Soldiers
Velvet
Vexations
Visions And Ristras
Waxing New Mexican
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

In the tradition of Neruda, Joan weaves the everyday stuff of life 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

Joan Logghe is the true muse of New Mexico's Espaola Valley, as intimately tied to place as Emily Dickinson to New England or Sappho to her island. And these poems are vintage Logghe - infused with a poetic vision that merges domesticity and the everyday with the divine. -- Miriam Sagan

Joan Logghe is the true muse of New Mexicos Espanola Valley, as intimately tied to place as Emily Dickinson to New England or Sappho to her island. And these poems are vintage Loggheinfused with a poetic vision that merges domesticity and the everyday with the divine. --

About the Author

Joan Logghe has been an integral part of New Mexico's poetry renaissance for many years. She has appeared as a workshop leader, keynote speaker or reader in a variety of settings, locally and nationally. She and her husband live in La Puebla, New Mexico where they built a solar home and are joined by a cast of three children, two horses, and chickens too numerous to mention here by name.

Product Details

• Paperback: 109 pages
• Publisher: Mariposa Printing & Publishing Co; 1st edition (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933553137
• ISBN-13: 978-0933553132
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,585,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Graceful, hopeful, and wonderful, April 30, 2001

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This review is from: Blessed Resistance (Paperback)

This collection is a triptych of poems that focus on culture, family, and the personal landscape of marriage. Logghe writes of the beauty of northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley and the problems experienced by an outsider upon entering this special place. She has lived in New Mexico for 18 years and spent 15 years writing these poems. Check out "Something like Marriage." Graceful, hopeful, and wonderful.

5.0 out of 5 stars lots of talent, February 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Blessed Resistance (Paperback)

Joan is a very talented poet whose work is lyrical, fun, real, true! All of her work reads well.