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Finding Peaches in the Desert
Pamela Uschuk
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Description for Finding Peaches in the Desert
Paperback. This is the first collection of poetry by American Book Award winner Pamela Uschuk. Finding Peaches in the Desert won the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 200.
This is the first collection of poetry by American Book Award winner Pamela Uschuk. Finding Peaches in the Desert won the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council. Luis Urrea wrote of this book, "Whether she writes of the sexy quiet of marriage . . . or the lacerating political rage that bursts out of many of these pages, Uschuk maintains the light that burns in her chest. All the landscapes here from the desert's rumpled floor to the poet's own bed to the torture chambers of Chile are alive and vivid with this light." Joy Harjo calls it ... Read more
This is the first collection of poetry by American Book Award winner Pamela Uschuk. Finding Peaches in the Desert won the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council. Luis Urrea wrote of this book, "Whether she writes of the sexy quiet of marriage . . . or the lacerating political rage that bursts out of many of these pages, Uschuk maintains the light that burns in her chest. All the landscapes here from the desert's rumpled floor to the poet's own bed to the torture chambers of Chile are alive and vivid with this light." Joy Harjo calls it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Wings Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
98
Place of Publication
San Antonio, TX, United States
ISBN
9780930324599
SKU
V9780930324599
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99-3
About Pamela Uschuk
Pam Uschuk is editor-In-Chief of the literary magazine, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts and a professor of Creative Writing at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Uschuk's literary prizes include the the Struga International Poetry Prize, the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council for ... Read more
Reviews for Finding Peaches in the Desert
These poems make a sensual garden. The gifts of the earth can be found here: from peaches to lizards to rich earth that soaks up the spilled blood of history. There is the promise of rain and the sky filled with spirits of those we become. There is singing in this garden, and though it might be the end of ... Read more