Lucille Lang Day | Author

Lucille Lang Day
Poetry, Short Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2012

Married at Fourteen: A True Story

“Told with self-lacerating honesty and unvarnished prose that rises on command to poetic intensity, Married at Fourteen is the absorbing memoir of a young woman who struggles to find storybook romance and a purpose in life beyond it—and, against cruel odds, succeeds. Lucille Lang Day, only child of an obsessive-compulsive mother and an indulgent but passive father, was...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2009

The Curvature of Blue: Poems

“Intelligence enjoying itself, awareness at play, attentiveness dancing through life’s minefields: smiling at itself in its new black car (‘Nor have I shunned onyx jewelry. That would be foolish’). Lucille Lang Day will at first glance make you smile and smile again. Then, with her scientist’s mind, her woman’s heart, her pain at injustice and evil, and...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.12.2006

The Book of Answers

A chapbook of poems. "The poems of Lucy Day's The Book of Answers posit the responses of a gentle, intelligent universe to the questions of a kaleidoscopic—and poetic—imagination. These poems are as delicate as rain and as lasting as redwoods. Let them be your companion late at night or on a dawn walk along your favorite paths." — David St. John

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2005

Chain Letter: A Children's Book

“Chain Letter, written by Lucille Lang Day and illustrated by Doug Dworkin, is the fun story of a chain letter and its impact on the people and animals who receive its instructions. Following the letter through its arrival in hands of so many recipients, Chain Letter carries its young readers through the good and bad things that fulfilling or disregarding a chain letter might...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.15.2002

Infinities: Poems

"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...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.02.2001

Lucille Lang Day: Greatest Hits, 1975-2000

Poets' Greatest Hits is an invitational chapbook series that was founded by Jennifer Bosveld at Pudding House Publications and was later taken over by Kattywompus Press. There are currently more than 300 titles in the Poets' Greatest Hits series. Each book contains 12 poems have been reprinted, anthologized, awarded prizes, requested at readings, etc.

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PUBLISHED: Mar.20.2000

Wild One: Poems

“Few books of poems have the sheer narrative intensity of Lucille Day’s Wild One. It sweeps the reader up like a powerful coming-of-age novel—half hilarious, half heartbreaking—but always with the sharp lyric edge of genuine poetry.” —Dana Gioia, author of Can Poetry Matter?

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PUBLISHED: Apr.04.1997

Fire in the Garden: Poems

“Fire in the Garden is a book of beauties and multilations, erotic intimacies, distances, and mysteries, seductive dreams and sardonic deflations of our common dreamlife. It runs hot, cold and shivery, and will keep surprising you with the ‘taste of ash’ on its lips.” — Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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PUBLISHED: Dec.01.1982

Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope

"Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope is an exceptional collection, frequently drawing upon the concerns of the neurochemist and biologist whose laboratory procedures make stunning connections for the poet between microscopic and human life...This inventive and accessible poet turns old kitchens and scientific laboratories into new places worth exploring along with her." — Robert...

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Lucille's Latest Blogs

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May.22.2013 - 8:26 pm

"Form/Formless": A Math Poem!

My poem "Form/Formless" appears on JoAnne Growney's blog, Intersections — Poetry with Mathematics: http://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2013/05/shifting-patterns.html

May.16.2013 - 4:40 pm

Path Toward Destruction, Turned Around

An article about my memoir, Married at Fourteen, and its nomination for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction appears in the JWeekly: http://www.jweekly....

May.12.2013 - 10:59 pm

Reflections on "The Trip"

My personal essay "The Trip" will be published in the anthology The Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the 60s and 70s. Here's a blog about "The Trip": ...

May.01.2013 - 7:58 pm

Harsh and Gentle Readers

The night before reading from my memoir, Married at Fourteen, at a bookstore in Mendocino on the coast of Northern California, I stayed at a B&B in Albion. In the bookcase in...

Writing

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Short Story: The Girl at Ocean Beach

Poem: Autumn, the Girl

Poem: God of the Jellyfish

Published Reviews

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Nov.29.2012

Married at Fourteen: A True Story

Published by Sacramento Press

"...this is one of the best books I’ve read in a very long time, memoir or otherwise."

Audio & Video

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Video: GET LIT: Lucille Lang Day

Video: Lucille Lang Day Reading at Quiet Lightning, April 2012

Video: Lucille Lang Day Reading at the 2010 Berkeley Poetry Festival

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June 7, 3pm, Nina Serrano's interview with me will be on KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley (online at http://t.co/hr6rCH2Ql5): http://t.co/zjrJ0Yw6df — 1 week 5 days ago

You won’t find a more likable voice on the page...”

—Cyra McFadden

About Lucille

Lucille Lang Day's memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, was published by Heyday in October 2012. She is also the author of a children's book, Chain Letter, and eight poetry collections and chapbooks: The Curvature of Blue, God of the Jellyfish, The Book...

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