Lucy Shaw's "Mending"

The Daily Poem

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Lucy Shaw has published ten volumes of poetry (several still in print) and numerous non-fiction books, and has edited and collaborated on multiple other works, including several with Madeleine L'Engle.[6] Her poems are widely anthologized.[1] Shaw usually works in free verse, and typically her poems are quite short, less than a page. Nevertheless, in tone and content, she affiliates most readily with the transcendental poets, often finding in natural details and themes the touch of the eternal or other-worldly.[citation needed].

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0:32.6	Welcome back to the Daily Poem, presented this month by Bibliophiles.
0:36.8	I'm David Kern, and today is Tuesday,
0:39.9	February 1st, 2022. The poem that I'm going to read today is by Lucy Shaw, a writer of poetry
0:47.1	and essays, and I was going to say an American poet, but while she is an American citizen, she was
0:53.5	raised in England and lived also in Canada
0:55.5	and Australia. So she has experienced a great deal of the world. She regularly speaks on topics
1:01.4	like art and spirituality, the Christian imagination, writing of poetry, and so forth. And the poem
1:07.2	that I'm going to read today is a lovely poem from her book, What the Light was Like.
1:13.4	It's a collection that came out in 2006 from Word Farm.
1:17.6	And the poem is called Mending.
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