Glenna Luschei’s Witch Dance
A Review of the New Collection from San Luis Obispo’s Poet Laureate Emerita
Glenna Luschei, the poet laureate emerita of San Luis Obispo, has just published her 24th collection, Witch Dance: New and Selected Poems (Pressa Press, 2010). She is a spellcaster, mesmerizing us with images and content that begin in one dimension and leap to another with the hand of a master artist who has written for a long time. Her poems dance between waking and dream, reality and fantasy, with the joys and struggles of a woman who has loved deeply and long. Newly widowed, she dedicates the book to her husband William (Bill) Horton, the “love of her life.”
The opening poem, “Witch Dance,” sets the tone for all those that follow in a tumble of past and present pitted against each other, unfolding her life story which reminds us of the universal complexity and curiosities of our own.
Winter presses our hands
