Unpunctuated Awe : Santa Fe Poems
Tres Chicas Books
During my two years as Santa Fe's Poet Laureate, I was taking notes on a city.
These poems are selected from that time and this place.
The Singing Bowl
The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2011
This poetry collection showcases all the features of Joan Logghe's work that have attracted so many readers: her attention to detail, her warmth, humor, and passionate and inclusive social conscience. At once postmodern and deeply rooted in her adopted northern New Mexico home, Logghe's work connects disparate events and objects.
"I named my last child Hope. I never had a last child,"" she writes in the poem "True or False.""
Television Is the Golden Calf I read about
In Sabbath School. My teacher lied.
We live on the northern edge of the Sonorous desert.
Armageddon is a small lizard that reconstitutes at first rain.
Turtles have an aversion to helium because they are heavyhearted.
"Joan Logghe is one of the most exciting poets in America today. Her words sing, slide, slip, & jive. I love everything by Joan." - Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones
Finalist for New Mexico Book Award, Women Writing The West WILLA Award and
The Binghamton University Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award.
The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2011
This poetry collection showcases all the features of Joan Logghe's work that have attracted so many readers: her attention to detail, her warmth, humor, and passionate and inclusive social conscience. At once postmodern and deeply rooted in her adopted northern New Mexico home, Logghe's work connects disparate events and objects.
"I named my last child Hope. I never had a last child,"" she writes in the poem "True or False.""
Television Is the Golden Calf I read about
In Sabbath School. My teacher lied.
We live on the northern edge of the Sonorous desert.
Armageddon is a small lizard that reconstitutes at first rain.
Turtles have an aversion to helium because they are heavyhearted.
"Joan Logghe is one of the most exciting poets in America today. Her words sing, slide, slip, & jive. I love everything by Joan." - Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones
Finalist for New Mexico Book Award, Women Writing The West WILLA Award and
The Binghamton University Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award.
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Love & Death: Greatest Hits
Tres Chicas Books, 2011
Joan Logghe, Renee Gregorio and Miriam Sagan
LOVE & DEATH selects poems from the publications of co-conspirators, friends for over twenty-five years, and founders of Tres Chicas Books Renée Gregorio, Joan Logghe, and Miriam Sagan. As poets with intertwined geographies, friendships, and loves, the poems show the threading as they've fallen in love, mourned deaths of beloveds, and let that passion inform their poetry. They deliver a triptych of poetry in one cover, hoping to create not just a book but a sense of community.
Winner, New Mexico Book Award in Poetry
Rice, Tres Chicas Books, El Rito, 2005. Watch a video from AuthorViews featuring Joan speaking about Rice |
Blessed Resistance, Mariposa Printing and Publishing, Santa Fe, 1999. |
Sofia, La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1999 Finalist, Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. |
Catch Our Breath: Writing from the Heart of Aids, editor, Mariposa Printing and Publishing, Santa Fe, 1996. |
Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man, La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1995, second edition 1997, finalist Western States Book Award. |
Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico, edited with Miriam Sagan. Sherman Asher Publishing, Santa Fe, 1998, finalist Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. |
Joan's books are available at your local independent bookstore, online, or by contacting Joan Logghe
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Read Excerpts of Joan's Poetry at sfpoetry.org
