Witch Dance

Poet Glenna Luschei responds to the death of her husband Bill with a special kind of poetic magic. The collection is built around the poems remembering Bill and projects the emotions around his loss like ritual incantations, to form transformative and cathartic symbols that ultimately restore and renew the poet's life force. With a balance of older, related works and new material, "Witch Dance" may well be Luschei's best poetry collection to date. Emotionally intense and suffused with the organic imagery she is known for, the poems are evocative spells sure to remind readers of the fragility and beauty of life and love. Walking through the live oak forest of her memory, we share in her poignant transformation from grief to a life affirming joie de vivre.