Lit Blue Sky Falling - Softcover

Files, Meg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1646620178 ISBN 13: 9781646620173

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2019

Synopsis

From the Galapagos Islands to Iceland to a retirement village barber shop, these poems mingle natural history, memory, and reflections on mortality. They conjure blue-footed boobies, wildfire, coral-adorned underwater sculpture, a post-election Fourth of July, the aurora borealis. They explore life with twin sisters, the enduring presence of the dead, the way wars cascade through lives, the making and meaning of art, and earthly love.

About this title

About the Author

Meg Files is the author of the novels Meridian 144 and The Third Law of Motion, Home Is the Hunter and Other Stories, The Love Hunter and Other Poems, and Writing What You Know, a book about using personal experience and taking risks with writing. She edited Lasting: Poems on Aging. Her awards include a Bread Loaf Fellowship. She taught creative writing, directed the Pima Writers' Workshop, and chaired the English and Journalism Department at Pima College for many years. She was the James Thurber Writer-in-Residence at Ohio State University and the Doris Leadbetter Writer-in-Residence at Victoria University in Australia. She directs the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and Masters Workshop.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646620178
• ISBN 13: 9781646620173
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44