Wild One: Poems - Softcover

Poetry. Lucille Lang Day is a jack-of-all-trades and her multitude of talents and interests shines through in her new collection of poetry, WILD ONE. "No one writes poems quite like Lucille Day's sharp-edged, witty, ironic poems; laugh-out-loud funny poems; startling, disquieting, slightly sinister poems; gorgeously wrought, lyrical poems. With unique combination of gifts--including the precision of a mathematician, a botanist's powers of observation, the memoirist's eye for the critical detail--Day captures the moment midair and pins it to the page. WILD ONE is a wonderful collection of those moments"--Maria Falk.

Lucille Lang Day is the author of nine previous poetry collections and chapbooks, including THE CURVATURE OF BLUE ( ervena Barva Press, 2009), The Book of Answers, and INFINITIES (Cedar Hill, 2002). Her first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature; her most recent chapbook, Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, won the Blue Light Poetry Award. She has also published a children's book, Chain Letter, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, which received a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Day earned her M.F.A. in creative writing at San Francisco State University and her Ph.D. in science/mathematics education at the University of California at Berkeley. The founder and director of a small press, Scarlet Tanager Books, she also served for seventeen years as the director of the Hall of Health, an interactive museum in Berkeley. She lives in Oakland, California, with her husband, writer Richard Michael Levine.