Cloudshade: Poems of the High Plains Contributor(s): Howe, Lori (Author) |
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ISBN: 0996020691 ISBN-13: 9780996020695 Publisher: Sastrugi Press LLC OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places - Poetry | Women Authors |
Physical Information: 0.19" H x 6" W x 9" (0.28 lbs) 78 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: In every season, life on America's high plains is at once harsh and beautiful, liberating and isolated, welcoming and unforgiving. The poems of Cloudshade take us through those seasons, swinging wide a glassless window to life in the West--to antelope flowing seamless over dirt roads, boom and bust ghost towns, deep, glacial lakes ringed with glowing aspen trees, ice fishing by the Northern Lights, and as in "High Plains Solstice," live music on summer nights that carves hot petals Cloudshade is a book for everyone, from poetry lovers to those who don't usually read poems. If you've ever waited through five or six months of winter for the first signs of spring, stood outside to feel the first, long-awaited summer rains, caught the wood-smoke and cottonwood scent of fall, or stood on a frozen lake, listening to winter rumbling and heaving through the ice, these poems will carry you back to what is elemental and haunting about life on the high plains, as in "On the Ice," where We wait, silent, hearing with our feet
At a pale crossroads,
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Contributor Bio(s): Howe, Lori: - Lori Howe is the author of Cloudshade: Poems of the High Plains (Sastrugi Press, 2015), High Lonesome: A Poet's Guide to Wyoming Ghost Towns (Elm Books, 2016), and Stories from Earth: Millennials, Literature, and Teaching Writing that Matters. Her poems, short fiction, and non-fiction appear in numerous journals, anthologies, and books. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Wyoming. Editor in chief of Clerestory: Poems of the Mountain West (clerestorypoets.org), she lives and writes in Laramie, Wyoming. |