Salt Lick: A Retrospective Of Poetry

Forty years worth of poems from nineteen collections, with a generous addition of new pieces, this collection contains the themes and treatments that have moved Glenna Luschei all her life: sympathetic understanding, wry judgment, the experience of sensation and of loss, the act of witness, the love of nature and its processes, and longing for peace and harmony in a world often dominated by injustice and the abuse of power. Poet, editor, small press pioneer, and devoted friend of literature, Glenna Luschei tells the truth and never denies her own voice.

It would be hard to imagine a poet more appreciated by other poets than Glenna Luschei. California's poet laureate Al Young praises her and the women of her generation:

"You make me cry. You do all this for love.
You do it all because you dare to care,
you dare to dream. Someone has to act.
You're sick of hearing about how somewhere
over the rainbow. . . ."