The Secret Trees: Poems

by Luci Shaw

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877889090
• ISBN13: 9780877889090
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Harold Shaw Pub
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

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Profound Poetry

Luci Shaw uses words the way a master chef uses ingredients. Mixed and seasoned with uncommon wisdom and bracing metaphor, her poems crack open the door to the profound spiritual meanings embedded in the everyday. Born in England in 1928, she ended up in the United States, where she graduated from Wheaton College in 1953, married, and raised five children. Many of her poems focus on objects in nature, and the deeper truths they remind us of. She sees wonder in the ordinary, and makes marvelous use of metaphor to awaken us to the wonder. "Though the pomegranate is finished, still my tongue tingles. My skull is filled with rubies." (from "The Tenacity of Memory" in The Silent Trees) Now almost 80, she has published numerous books of poetry during her career, including Listen to the Green, The Secret Trees, and Writing the River. She has also served on the committee of consultants for a recently published new version of the English Bible, and is writer-in-residence at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.