Rice

by Joan Logghe

Poetry. Joan Logghe says of her book, RICE, "One night I wrote four poems on a long sheet of rice paper. I noticed they had a uniform shape and decided to give myself the pleasure of writing domestic sonnets. For two and a half years they spilled off of rice paper and into my computer. I have always played with how you can make art in the cracks of the daily, in this case the amount of time it takes for rice to cook, and at the end of the boiling, there is a poem. This book was held together by rice. It is as formal and as formless as those grains, both cooked and uncooked." "I love the sudden changes in these sonnets. Things change fast as in art or life"-Robert Bly.

87 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

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).