Writing the River by Luci Shaw It Began with a Page Designed with a hardcover

Designed with a hardcover

a graduate of Ringling School of Art and Design

It has prose of the caliber that we have not seen since Joseph Conrad—an ecstasy of a delirious sort of love for what he observes

inhabited largely by women

' Shall we despair the future of the notebook

Writing the River by Luci Shaw It Began with a Page Designed with a hardcover"Writing the River traces the steps of a writer who cocks her ear to listen for spiritual reality. The book is a record of her search into everything rivers and bread and closets and sometimes, as if by miracle, she finds what she is looking for. And whether she tells about the search or the finding, she writes with utter clarity." Jeanne Murray Walker, poet, author of Coming Into History "In Writing the River and elsewhere, Luci Shaw's poems provide