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Luci Shaw

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born

December 29, 1928 in London, The United Kingdom

website

http://www.lucishaw.com

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Poetry, Religion & Spirituality

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Luci Shaw is a poet, essayist, teacher and retreat leader. Born in England in 1928, she has lived in Australia and Canada and (since 1950) in the United States.

She is the author of a number of nonfiction books, including God in the Dark and Water My Soul. Her first book of poetry, Listen to the Green, was published in 1971. It was followed by several others, including Polishing the Petosky Stone, Writing the River, The Angles of Light and, most recently, Accompanied by Angels and What the Light Was Like.

Her poems have appeared in publications such as Books & Culture, The Christian Century, Crux, Image, Radix, Rock & Sling, Nimble Spirit and Weavings. Musical settings for several of her poems have been composed by Knut Nystedt, Alice...more

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Books by Luci Shaw

Average rating: 3.97 · 329 ratings · 43 reviews · 36 distinct works

	Friends for the Journey by Luci Shaw, Madeleine L'Engle 3.95 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination, and Spirit: Reflections on Creativity and Faith 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Crime of Living Cautiously: Hearing God's Call to Adventure 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Accompanied by Angels: Poems of the Incarnation 4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Polishing the Petoskey Stone: Selected Poems 4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L'Engle (Wheaton Literary Series) 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	What the Light Was Like: Poems 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Listen to the Green 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings	My rating:
	Water Lines: New And Selected Poems 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings	My rating:
	God in the Dark: Through Grief and Beyond 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smoothe and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.”
― Luci Shaw

tags: comfort , god , pain

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