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Don't look for Luci Shaw lingering atop some contemplative mountaintop. She's just as likely to be flinging herself off it. Poet, spiritual essayist, bungee jumper, world traveler, and photographer, she comes by her words of wisdom by pondering on the go. In short, she's that rarest of rare birds, someone who finds a way to blend action and contemplation. Wherever she finds herself, Shaw keeps a sharp eye to the buzzing mystery at the edges of experience, her journal at the ready. Then she writes poetry and reflective prose, with a keenness and vigor that lovingly describes what Hopkins called the “inscape” of things. By turns sly and rowdy, earnest and perceptive, she tugs out the vital truth from under the appearance of things. Her mind is a joy to follow as it moves from the turning of a leaf into the turning of a thought. Whether she lingers over images of water, sky, and growing things in her poems—weaving them into startling, but mysterious associations—or burrows into the cavities of the soul to bring healing with exhortation, one can't help but feel moved to answer to Shaw's calling to a deeper sort of life. Now it's just a matter of keeping up with her.

Luci Shaw won the Wheaton College Alumna of the Year in 2003 for Distinguished Service to Society and has had her poetry read on National Television (CBS) in Canada, and on Thames Television in England. Shaw has also had many television interviews, including appearances on The Seven Hundred Club and The Chicago Sunday Evening Club.

Bibliography

Poetry

• Polishing the Petoskey Stone (Shaw, 1990)
• Writing the River (Pinon Press, 1994/Regent Publishing, 1997)
• The Angles of Light (Waterbrook, 2000)
• The Green Earth: Poems of Creation (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002)
• What the Light Was Like (Word Farm, 2006)
• Accompanied by Angels (Eerdmans, 2006)
• The Genesis of It All (Paraclete, 2006)
• Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination & Spirit (Nelson, 2009)

Non-Fiction

• Water My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life (Zondervan, 2003)
• The Crime of Living Cautiously (InterVarsity, 2005)

Co-authored with Madeleine L’Engle

• WinterSong (Regent, 2004)
• Friends for the Journey (Regent, 2003)
• A Prayer Book for Spiritual Friends (Augsburg/Fortress, 1999)