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Cairn (poems)
"These poems of many decades invoke so many rich worlds of being...her elegant spirit and voice turn us all back into the more lyrical people we might be. It is her ongoing gift, and our treasure." —Naomi Shihab Nye |
Toucan Nest: Poems of Costa Rica (poems)
"A dazzle of a book." —Alice Friman |
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Just Breathe Normally (memoir)
"Painful healing from a freak bicycle accident burns at the heart of this collection of lyrical anecdotes. . . . Shumaker's prose possesses throughout a limpid serenity." —Publishers Weekly
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Gnawed Bones (poems) "Good heavens, what a book. No, rather good earth, good sad mortal body, what a book. Shumaker writes without blame, but with utter clarity and precision and story-telling skill about places on earth and our place among them" —Alicia Ostriker |
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Underground Rivers (poems)
"Peggy's Shumaker's fifth book of poems seems called forth by nature itself—from
ash, aurora, legend, and vision—to keep and heal an audience thirsty for 'the
internal weather / of ocean inside us.'" —Hilda Raz
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Blaze (poems/art) Sensual Alaskan paintings and poems. |
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The Circle of Totems (poems)
"Peggy Shumaker's The Circle of Totems isn't merely reflections on travel, it lives for what the Aleutian people of Alaska call movement, meaning passage made on a horizontal and vertical plane at once. " —Norman Dubie |
Wings Moist from the Other World (poems) "Many of Shumaker's best pieces revolve around family—not pleasant tales of growing up in a loving home, but portraits of the angry adult making peace with her long-dead parents. " —Publisher's Weekly |
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Esperanza's Hair (poems) "The craft and vision in these poems are extraordinary but what is shocking about this book is the poet's understanding of the order of things."—Norman Dubie |
CHAPBOOKS
Braided River (poems)
Letterpress cover and interior artwork by Wendy Shaft. Signed and lettered hard cover edition. Numbered soft cover edition.
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Greatest Hits (poems)
Twelve poems plus a brief essay by the poet.
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ANTHOLOGIES
Below is a selected list of anthologies in which Peggy's work has been included. Titles link to the books' pages on Amazon.
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