Earth-Blood and Star-Shine

Lowell Jaeger's Earth-blood & Star-shine is an earthy book of praise poems. Humble and open-eyed, Jaeger gives us gray mornings and wayward deer, missing teeth and missing legs, swollen jowls and battered cars and amid all of these, there is a prevailing attitude of wonder, gratitude, and humor. The struggles and challenges we all experience and endure come off the page clear enough to hear, smell, and see. This collection adds up to model a way of living: don't do it fancy, but look, sweat, smile, and dance. Adam Davis, Executive Director of Oregon Humanities