EVERYTHING New and Selected Poems

<p class=ql-align-center></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winner of the 2025 Blue Light Book Award</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Praise for <em>Everything: New and Selected Poems</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Terry Lucas is the author of two prize-winning chapbooks </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If They Have Ears to Hear </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(Southeast Missouri State University Press 2012) and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Altar Call </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival 2013) in addition to three previous full-length collections: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In This Room</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (CW Books 2016) </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dharma Rain </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(Saint Julian Press 2016) and with photographer Gary Topper </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Thing Itself </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(Longship Press 2020). </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>His poetry has appeared in numerous national journals including </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Alaska Quarterly Review Best New Poets </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Sun. </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Terry is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Marin County California and a freelance poetry coach at </span><u style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>www.terrylucas.com</u><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this moving and profoundly cohesive selection from his lifetime of poems Terry Lucas tells us that everything yes everything now gathered to us is leaving.Yet Lucas provides us with intense presence whether he is writing about the boy he was - child of difficult parents and so God-haunted that he became a boy preacher - or about the grown man who traverses for work and for love a keenly seen America. His work is enriched by his dialogue with other poets; many of these poems are afterpoems some of them quite directly engaging with previous poetic texts. From his earliest poems to the new work that is this book's destination Lucas' poetry is unified by a commitment to the urgencies of character place memory language and voice. Terry Lucas gives us a map of the road he's traveled with each switchback demanding full attention/in the moonless night. </span></p><p class=ql-align-right><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- David Groff author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Live in Suspense </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>