A Near Country
Copyright © 1995
by Glenna Luschei, David Oliveira,
and Jackson Wheeler
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A Near Country is like one of those miraculous trios by Haydn or
Brahms. Glenn Luschei is the violin, carrying the tragic motif of the book
in high, clear song: Oliveira is the piano supporting the work with
insistent rhythm and wit: Wheeler is the cello with its dark and brilliant
theme that ties the composition together in a burst of pain and
reconciliation. This is a book to treasure in dark times and with
everlasting hope. — Carolyn Kizer
I am moved by Glenna Luschei’s bold, painterly glimpses of vibrant life.
— Carol Muske
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Pianos Around the Cape
Copyright © 1999
by Glenna Luschei
Aspermont P
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Pianos Around the Cape is a mighty celebration of life —
astounding in the face of
terrible loss and immense
pain. ... Glenna Luschei has served her and our muse well as a spirited
human, a dedicated editor and publisher, and
here — yet again — as a master poet. She is an oracle for our
time, resplendent in awareness sand awesome
truth. — Ronald Bayes, from the introduction
Her writing celebrates its elements and seasons, the growing things and
creatures, with sharp, evocative colors and a sinewy verse music alert to
the poetic capacities in the sounds of such ordinary words as mica and
tarmac, soap and oak. — Tom Clark
From hearing you read your poems, what I remember
now is their unusually
strong emotional effect, with many lines still sounding in my ear for days
afterward, and images that
remain extraordinarily vivid. Your work is warm, compassionate, and rooted
in our common humanness,
but lighted with gleams from the far reaches of inner and outer space. — Frank Waters
... one of the finest lyrical poets currently practicing in America. — Grover Lewis
Luschei’s poems draw us back to the intimate places in the world we thought
were lost. — Steven Sher
... these poems are on the other side of despair. They see through their
occasions, even the sad ones, toward what is precious in the life one is
given. — Gene Frumkin
Glenna’s poetry as all good poetry, releases itself slow into the mind of
the reader. There is great diversity and richness in Pianos Around the
Cape. — Ingrid Reti
... a plaintive cry that will be recognizable to anyone who has suffered
profound loss. — Sally Buckner
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Shot With Eros
Copyright © 2002
by Glenna Luschei
John Daniel & Company
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Shot With Eros covers thirty years in the writing career of
poet/rancher/publisher Glenna Luschei. The poems in this collection are
funny, moving, sensual, and intelligent. Glenna Luschei has a fine ear
for language and a fine eye for the landscape, but more than anything else,
these are poems about the language and landscape of relationships.
— from the jacket
Glenna Luschei's poems are always lively, brave, sometimes biting as
lime juice — written by an enchanting mind. — Robert Bly
Shot With Eros is a fitting title for this collection. These
thoughtful poems about aspiring, self-fulfilling, and sometimes disappointing
love are sung in a music of sensuous detail. This book will delight readers who,
like the author, find Eros in the world of ordinary objects and flowering
nature. — Jeanne Shannon
Glenna Luschei is a modern-day Judith, life's passion bared, tempting us to
enter her tent: these poems, as honest and intoxicating as lust, as
exotic as dream. Here is writing at its most intimate and sensual —
poetry as aphrodisiac, imagery seductive. ... Love, for Luschei, is the only peace
we deeply know, the one sure legacy we leave. — Steven Sher
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