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Praise
for Fire in the Garden, Poems
by Lucille Lang Day
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
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Fire
in the Garden is a book of beauties and multilations,
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
In the tradition of the best surrealism, Lucille Day's poems display
unusual combinations of images that cohere to present a personal,
and at the same time universal, vision of everyday struggles—a
vision probing the consoling powers of imagination, "the cool
blue flight/of stars, flowing/through the endless black." Her
powerful, sharp-edged, declarative poems speak to all of us.
—Timothy
Houghton
Fire
in the Garden was published by Mother's Hen (Berkeley,
California) in 1997.
ISBN 0-914370-72-3, Paper, 64 pages, $9.95
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