Lucille Lang Day's Books
Oct.01.2012
“Told with self-lacerating honesty and unvarnished prose that rises on command to poetic intensity, Married at Fourteen is the absorbing memoir of a young woman who struggles to find storybook romance and a purpose in life beyond it—and, against cruel odds, succeeds. Lucille Lang Day, only child of an obsessive-compulsive mother and an indulgent but passive father, was...
Mar.01.2009
“Intelligence enjoying itself, awareness at play, attentiveness dancing through life’s minefields: smiling at itself in its new black car (‘Nor have I shunned onyx jewelry. That would be foolish’). Lucille Lang Day will at first glance make you smile and smile again. Then, with her scientist’s mind, her woman’s heart, her pain at injustice and evil, and...
Sep.12.2006
A chapbook of poems. "The poems of Lucy Day's The Book of Answers posit the responses of a gentle, intelligent universe to the questions of a kaleidoscopic—and poetic—imagination. These poems are as delicate as rain and as lasting as redwoods. Let them be your companion late at night or on a dawn walk along your favorite paths." — David St. John
Oct.01.2005
“Chain Letter, written by Lucille Lang Day and illustrated by Doug Dworkin, is the fun story of a chain letter and its impact on the people and animals who receive its instructions. Following the letter through its arrival in hands of so many recipients, Chain Letter carries its young readers through the good and bad things that fulfilling or disregarding a chain letter might...
Feb.15.2002
"Like any true poet, Lucille Lang Day scans the outer world of jungles and stars for clues to the inner universe of feeling and thought. She does this by exploring scientific language and ideas for hints—metaphors, facts, images—that might reveal something about the meaning of personal experience. Her poems are eloquent, imaginative, and informed by a knowledge of...
Apr.02.2001
Poets' Greatest Hits is an invitational chapbook series that was founded by Jennifer Bosveld at Pudding House Publications and was later taken over by Kattywompus Press. There are currently more than 300 titles in the Poets' Greatest Hits series. Each book contains 12 poems have been reprinted, anthologized, awarded prizes, requested at readings, etc.
Mar.20.2000
“Few books of poems have the sheer narrative intensity of Lucille Day’s Wild One. It sweeps the reader up like a powerful coming-of-age novel—half hilarious, half heartbreaking—but always with the sharp lyric edge of genuine poetry.” —Dana Gioia, author of Can Poetry Matter?
Apr.04.1997
“Fire in the Garden is a book of beauties and multilations, erotic intimacies, distances, and mysteries, seductive dreams and sardonic deflations of our common dreamlife. It runs hot, cold and shivery, and will keep surprising you with the ‘taste of ash’ on its lips.” — Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Dec.01.1982
"Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope is an exceptional collection, frequently drawing upon the concerns of the neurochemist and biologist whose laboratory procedures make stunning connections for the poet between microscopic and human life...This inventive and accessible poet turns old kitchens and scientific laboratories into new places worth exploring along with her."
— Robert...
You won’t find a more likable voice on the page...”
—Cyra McFadden
About Lucille
Lucille Lang Day's memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, was published by Heyday in October 2012. She is also the author of a children's book, Chain Letter, and eight poetry collections and chapbooks: The Curvature of Blue, God of the Jellyfish, The Book...
Connections
Causes Lucille Day Supports
George Mark Children's House
Doctors Without Borders
Environmental Defense Fund
Poetry Flash
Smile Train