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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.
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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
I
like so many of the poems in Infinities, their themes,
their tone and craft. I like the risks Lucille Lang Day takes
in addressing difficult subjects. She handles these subjects and
their vocabularies deftly and with wit and ease. We need voices
like hers exploring all the visions contained in our contemporary
cosmology and what those visions imply about being human.
—
Pattiann Rogers
The
description of 'Nature' has always been an important aspect of
California writing. In this brilliant book, Lucille Lang Day has
found an entirely new way to do it. Her explorations of both human
and nonhuman perspectives are impeccably and superbly alive. Here,
even a tumor speaks: 'I begin to sing. I am/a tiny siren/calling
the capillaries. . .'
—
Jack Foley
Lucille
Lang Day's new book, Infinities, marks a dramatic change
and expansion in her poetry—from the familiar microcosms
of personal relationships to the strange and wonderful macrocosms
of the universe. She explores scientific concepts from astrophysics
to marine biology with erudite care but always infuses the poems
with tangible emotion.
—
Dana Gioia
Infinities
was published by Cedar Hill Publications (Mena, Arkansas, and
San Diego, California) in 2002.
ISBN 1-891812-31-9,
Paper, 82 pages, $15.00
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