New Releases
An Incremental Life
Poems
In An Incremental Life, Shaw breathes life into the simpleness of the every-day and finds God in the memory of the mundane. Through her verses, she explores the intricate tapestry of existence, from the tender memories of childhood to the profound questions of mortality. Her poems are like windows opening to the soul, inviting readers to pause, reflect, and savor the beauty of the world around them.
“There’s so much to ponder, appreciate and learn from Luci Shaw’s words. And so, once more, in this, her latest volume of poems, Incremental Life. What especially strikes me in reading her this time around is how she manages to blend the music of poetry with what prayer can sound like, here in our dailiness—in the whisper of trees, the flight of birds, in preparing a meal and breaking bread for others, as well as in those recollections of youth and of those here now only in memory and the radiance of naming them, and then in meditating on our own mortality as the years go by. All of it made fuller by evoking the blessings—in light and in darkness—there for the taking, if we but took the time, like Luci Shaw, to see what is there before us.”
—Paul Mariani, author of Deaths and Transfigurations, The Mystery of It All, and All That Will be New
Reversing Entropy
New Poems
From the poet’s own words:
Just as a composer of music gathers rhythms, notes, melodies, or harmony, organizing them into fugues or sonatas or concertos, so poets work and write to discover ways of arranging their responses to the world in words that introduce meaning and beauty in the mind of the reader.
Which is what I’ve been trying to do for most of my life.
—Marjorie Maddox, author of Begin with a Question
In these wise and wondrous poems, the poet ponders how to hold onto memory and how to let it go.”
—Marjorie Maddox
Recently Published
Angels Everywhere
Poems
“The word ‘angel’ means ‘messenger’ and the title poem of this book, ‘Angels Everywhere,’ presents the idea that what I often glimpse is a flicker of glancing light, as if a heavenly being is darting in and out of my viewing, allowing me entry into a realm beyond my physical, experiential world—brief revelatory messages from somewhere beyond. —Luci Shaw, from the Introduction
The Generosity
Poems
“Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw’s 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as these poems illuminate in splendored natural detail how the seasons of creation parallel and explain the seasons of her life as a poet. Again and again, these poems shower us with glorious epiphanies from the natural world as it reflects God’s generosity at work such as “spring’s impossible news of green.”
The Eye of the Beholder
Poems
The joy and responsibility of the poet is to focus on particulars within the universe, finding fragments of meaning that speak to the imagination. Ordinary things may reveal the extraordinary for those willing to take time to investigate and ponder. In this fresh collection of poems, Luci Shaw practices the art of seeing, and then writing what she sees, realizing that beauty is often focused in the Eye of the Beholder.
