Poetry. "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 contemporary science. The creation she honors is God's, the vast ineffable realm of macro-and-microscopic nature. By doing this she honors as well the persistent, equally ineffable mystery of the human realm"-Kurt Brown.

Author Hometown: OAKLAND, CA USA



About the author: Lucille Lang Day is the author of five full-length poetry collections: THE CURVATURE OF BLUE (Cervena Barva, 2009), INFINITIES (Cedar Hill, 2002) WILD ONE (Scarlet Tanager, 2000), FIRE IN THE GARDEN (Mother's Hen, 1997), and Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope (Berkeley Poets' Workshop and Press, 1982), which received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She has also published three poetry chapbooks. Chain Letter, her children's book, was published by Heyday in 2005. She received her M.A. in English and M.F.A. in creative writing at San Francisco State University, and her M.A. in zoology and Ph.D. in science and mathematics education at the University of California at Berkeley.