Valley of Blue Hope: Poems Before and After Diagnosis of Cancer

by Lowell Uda

Overview

In these poems, I acknowledge a sense of rootlessness--that I, like my immigrant grandparents and even my second-generation parents, will not return to the place of my birth. The poems express my love as a sojourner for the Montana mountains, valleys and streams where I live my life, even after being diagnosed with a blood disorder, in gratitude and fullness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781494869397
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/10/2014
Pages:	62
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.13(d)

About the Author

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, I have taught English at the U. of Hawaii and the U. of Montana, and worked in Montana state government. After that I became a United Methodist minister, pastoring churches in Colorado and Montana. My short story, "The Cherry Tree," won first prize in the 2011 Common Review Short Story Prize contest. Stories, poems, and creative nonfiction of mine have appeared in literary and other magazines, including The North American Review, the Hawaii Review, the Chariton Review, and, most recently, A River and Sound Review, Written River, The Whirlwind Review, 5x5, Assisi, In Our Own Voice, Divide: Journal of Literature, Arts and Ideas, Poems Across the Big Sky, Moonrabbit Review, and The Other Side.