Pianos Around the Cape [Paperback]

Glenna Luschei (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 17, 1999

Poems in "Pianos Around the Cape" represent 30 years of the poet's life.

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"Luschei's poems draw us back to intimate places in the world we thought were lost." -- Steven Sher

Animals
Anniversary Poem
Arrangement
Back Into My Body
Bowl
Brooklyn
Call
Children's Poems
Chocolate Labrador
Claim
Combine
Copperhead
Divorcee
The Emerald Tablet
Empire
False Labor
Farewell To Winter
Fellowship
Fern Grotto
Fever
Flying Into The Fire
For The Women
Goddess
Golden Chains
The Golden Spike
Grip
Guided By Bittern
Halloween Dream
Highway
Home
The Horse
Inland Passages
Iowa
Jean Seberg
Julie At The Lighthouse
Kernel
Massacre
Matinee
Morning Song
My Last Poem To Grief
A New Way To Walk
Night Sky
North Carolina Tales: 1. Dog Fishing In The New
North Carolina Tales: 2. Molasses
North Carolina Tales: 3. Cross-out Saw
North Carolina Tales: 4. Bedpost
Not Far From Here
An Ode To George Bullcoming
Pearl Harbor
Pearls
Pianos Around The Cape
Pine Cones
Pop
The Pozo Basket
Principal
Quick
Rain
Rare
Redwoods
Reflections
Reservoir
Rocking
Secret
Shingles
Sioux City
Space
Spill-off
Stockholm Syndrome
Summit
Surgery
Tell You My Truth
Tenderfoot
Thaw
This Is The Church
The Tinder Box
To Enter A Greenhouse
Trailer
Unnamed
Virus
Visiting Hours
Wheat Straw
Window
Witch Dance
Zuni
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Glenna Luschei is a poet, editor and publisher. She was born in the midwest but has lived in Colombia, New Mexico, North Carolina and California. She is currently the poet laureate of San Luis Obispo, California. Ms. Luschei is the mother of four children. The oldest child, Linda, died in the AIDS epidemic.

Product Details

• Paperback: 105 pages
• Publisher: Aspermont Press (September 17, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964856220
• ISBN-13: 978-0964856226
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,880,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A RESPONSE TO PIANOS AROUND THE CAPE, August 4, 2000

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Ruth Daigon (CORTE MADERA, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pianos Around the Cape (Paperback)

My immediate response to "Pianos Around the Cape" is to borrow Glenna Luschei's remarkable phrase:"dashing from beauty to beauty" There is such diversity in her poetry and the ability to catch the essence of thoughts and emotions common to humanity. The "seemingly simple" style tends to make the reader forget what skill and craft lie behind all of this generous outpouring.....there is honesty, deceny and celebratory music in her poetry plus the underlying humor and ability to see things as they are. Is her work serious and often tragic? Yes but it is but it is also moving and affective without a hint of sentimentality. It would be difficult to single out lines or phrases that captivated me, but the following have been set in memory:"Flaws make us perfect."...."rocking chair, oh mesadora/ I rock myself on one arm/ my children on the other"....."we are lodged in the whale of the Andes? Lighting a new life/somewhere outside is the sea." Glenna Luschei has the ability to capture the moment that becomes our moment and makes us re-examine parallel incidents in our own live and find new meaning in them.