The Place the Spiders Waved, (FlowerSong Press, 2024), ISBN 978-1-9-6324540-0
In this moving memoir-in-verse, Lucy Griffith takes us on a journey through a memorable childhood on the Esperanza Ranch in the South Texas brush country. You will meet the jéfe and the vaqueros, the horses and vipers. Those lessons on the ranch that shaped and challenged her offer an opportunity to “ride along” and discover why the thorn scrub is a world to remember and celebrate.
“The Place the Spiders Waved finds Griffith at her cogitative best, using achingly beautiful language to delve into the people and places that raised her.”
“An exquisitely observed ode to the wonders, dangers, and history of the brush country. A generous, moving memoir-in-verse that startles and illuminates and above all demonstrates a deep reverence for this complicated land.”
“What a thrill to come across a talent like Lucy Griffith, who not only speaks the truth of South Texas/brush country/chaparral doggedness with clarity and spot on recognition, but in a manner both evocative and highly authentic.”
Wingbeat Atlas: Images and poems celebrating citizens of the sky, (FlowerSong Press, 2022), ISBN 978-1953447302
Two bird lovers, a poet and a photographer, collaborate in Wingbeat Atlas to bring poems and images together to celebrate our citizens of the sky. Award-winning poet Lucy Griffith shares her attention to detail, songlike lyrics and whimsey in these poems about Blue Grosbeaks, Loggerhead Shrikes, owls, hawks and hummingbirds. Sparrows and tiny wrens get their due as well. Ken Butler’s accompanying images show the birds in their habitats―freshly active and expressive. Poem and image combine to give the reader an immersive avian experience.
As the well-known international birder Victor Emanuel shares in his foreword: “Lucy Griffith's poems are a wonderful addition to the collection of poems about birds. Many of them contain lines about the behavior of birds, how they fly, what they eat, how they court a mate. These descriptions connect the reader in new ways with the bird. With all creatures, habitat is important. By often mentioning various plants, the bird’s habitat is evoked. Kenneth Butler’s excellent images of each bird highlighted in a poem add a fresh layer of enjoyment…Lucy's poems are brief and potent, then close with a moving, beautiful ending.”
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We Make a Tiny Herd: Poems to Honor the Burro Lady of Far West Texas, (Main Street Rag, 2019), ISBN 978-1-59948-729-8
Lucy’s first collection of poems We Make a Tiny Herd chronicles the story of Judy Magers, the Burro Lady of Far West Texas.
“Lucy Griffith’s work grows out of a passionate love for our southern borderlands, and for their harsh and harshly beautiful landscape. These poems are a poignant lovesong to west Texas, and to the power of ‘a woman alone’—be it the nearly mythic figure of ‘The Burro Lady,’ or Griffith herself, calling across the desert to ‘La Reina.’”
You can order an inscribed copy by contacting the author at lucy@lucygriffithwriter.com