Fearless personal essays from a treasured feminist poet and activist
Luck is a collection of essays covering such topics as memory, language, landscape, poetry, anger, sex, food, pandemics, war, violence, feminism, lies, imagination, death, power, identity, and of course luck. Some are full-blown explorations, others brief riffs. Some are prose poetry, others straightforward prose. The author combines scholarly research with personal experience, producing texts both intimate and illuminating. Always attentive to the world around her and the one within, Randall has brought us her most relevant and powerful essays to date.
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Barbara Byers was born in Denver, Colorado in the middle of the twentieth century. She has tried to study art in formal ways but is mostly self-taught. She worked in sign shops in Denver and Albuquerque to learn that art form. She has lived in Albuquerque for 45 years, painting signs, teaching kids with special needs, and making art. Her heart home is the desert and slick rock country of the Colorado Plateau.