Smells Like Rain - Softcover

Luce, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798991198332

Publisher: Sligo Creek Publishing Company, 2024

Synopsis

Refined Poems of Memory, Place, and American Experience

Smells Like Rain by Gregory Luce is a mature and beautifully crafted poetry collection from a poet with a calm, lucid voice. These poems reflect on rural American youth, family ancestry, cultural change, and the lasting inspiration of jazz music.

With clarity and emotional depth, Luce explores personal memory alongside broader themes of legacy, values, and the American landscape.

• Contemporary American Poetry Collection
  • A refined book of poems rooted in memory, place, rural life, and cultural reflection.
• Mature & Lucid Voice
  • By Gregory Luce, a thoughtful poet whose work captures the atmosphere and emotional truth of lived experience.
• Key Themes
  • Rural American youth, family ancestry, shifting cultural values, and the influence of jazz and music.
• Perfect for Poetry Lovers & Gifting
  • Ideal for readers of contemporary literary poetry, American poetry, memory poems, and place-based writing. A meaningful gift for anyone who appreciates quiet, resonant verse.
• From Sligo Creek Publishing
  • A concise and powerful 44-page paperback collection.

About the Author

Gregory Luce is an American poet whose work draws from personal history, rural roots, and a deep appreciation for music - particularly jazz. His poems are known for their clarity, emotional honesty, and ability to evoke both landscape and inner life.

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About the Author

Gregory Luce was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Texas, Kentucky and Oklahoma. He holds a BA and MA from Oklahoma State University and did additional graduate work at the University of Southern Mississippi. He lives in Arlington, VA.Gregory Luce is the author of Signs of Small Grace, Drinking Weather, Tile, and Riffs & Improvisations. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals and in the anthologies Living in Storms (Eastern Washington University Press), Written in Arlington (Paycock Press), and This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers Publishing House).In 2014, he was awarded the Larry Neal Award for adult poetry by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. In addition to poetry, he writes a monthly column for the online art journal Scene4.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sligo Creek Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798991198332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44
• Editor: Abrams Alan