Another Desert

by Joan Logghe (Editor)

Blending history, celebrations, and reconciliation of Jewish traditions with life in New Mexico, the circle of the Jewish year is saturated by the New Mexico experience as tashlich is performed in a desert river, and Passover coincides with Good Friday pilgrims making a holy journey to the Santuario de Chimayo. Includes work by Marjorie Agosin, Yehudis Fishman, Gene Frumkin, Natalie Goldberg, Judyth Hill, Joan Logghe, Consuelo Luz, Carol Moldow, Judith Rafaela, Miriam Sagan, and others.

115 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

About the author

Joan Logghe has lived a life of poetry in La Puebla, New Mexico, where she and her husband, Michael, built their solar houses, raised three children, have five grandkids, and one great grandson. She has taught extensively all ages, from UNM-Los Alamos to children in central Europe. She has led a yearly workshop at Ghost Ranch since 1990, taught at Santa Clara Pueblo day school, and, for 21 years, at the Santa Fe Girls’ School. Over and over, she has experienced the salutary power of poetry. She has run art and writing workshops, AIDS writing circles, and workshops for crisis, illness, and loss. Joan was Santa Fe’s Poet Laureate from 2010–2012. She has inspired and edited countless books by children and adults and served as Poetry Editor for Peggy O’Mara’s Mothering Magazine for many years. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants, a Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship, and a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant. Her books include Jade Bird: Singing Grief (Wild Rising Press), What Makes a Woman Beautiful (Pennywhistle Press), Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man (La Alameda Press), Sophia (La Alameda Press), Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico (edited with Miriam Sagan, Sherman Asher Press), Blessed Resistance (Mariposa Printing & Publishing), Rice (Tres Chicas Books), Love & Death: Greatest Hits (with Miriam Sagan and Renée Gregorio, Tres Chicas Books), The Singing Bowl (UNM Press), and Unpunctuated Awe: Poems of Santa Fe (Tres Chicas Books).

Reviews

[Ari · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's a few really pithy, moving pieces, but for me overall this one was just ok. It's a small group and a small audience, though. Recommended, selectively. A few pieces are potentially very useful for life cycle events or holiday programs.