Night Willow: Poems - Paperback

by Luisa A. Igloria (Author)

In this shining and unsparing new collection, celebrated poet Luisa A. Igloria draws from her own childhood memories, relationships, and keen sensory awareness to create a dreamlike series of pictures in which we, too, may see our growth through the experiences of joys, loss, and the poignant wisdom that comes with age. As poet Sean Thomas Dougherty puts it, Igloria's poems "get to the heart of why poetry is written: the pure lyric impulse of trying to live."

Author Biography

LUISA A. IGLORIA is the author of Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (selected by Mark Doty for the 2014 May Swenson Poetry Prize; Utah State University Press); The Saints of Streets [reviewed at The Rumpus] (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2013); Juan Luna's Revolver [reviewed at Lantern Review] (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize); Trill & Mordent(WordTech Editions, 2005); and eight other books. She holds degrees from the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was a Fulbright Fellow from 1992-1995. She teaches on the faculty of Old Dominion University and currently directs the M.F.A. creative writing program. Since November 20, 2010, she has written (at least) a poem a day; the poems are archived at Dave Bonta's Via Negativa site.