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INFINITIES:Poems
by LUCILLE LANG DAY
reviewed by Mary Barnet
Available for $15.00 from Small Press Distribution
(800/869-7553)
Lucille Lang Day links the macrocosm of astronomy and
the universal with the biological microcosm through the personal truth of
human relationships. She always fills the beautiful world of marine biology
and zoology with human emotion that allows the reader to relate to and touch
those worlds. Through Lucille’s poetry, we are able to learn about her topic
and our own world, also.
She lifts “California” writing to a new height and breath, while exploring
man’s place in his total universe. Little wonder that Lucille Lang Day was
selected by a poet of the caliber of Robert Pinsky for the Joseph Henry
Jackson Award. She has been lauded by Dana Gioia, as well; he has called her
work full of “erudite care [and] tangible emotion.”
The poem “Fate of the Universe” lets us dream that
after “new stars hatch.… perhaps in a distant galaxy….men and women will….
Kiss in warm beds.” Her entire presentation is an upbeat and joyous
presentation of life and the joys thereof.
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