Joan Logghe is one of the most exciting poets in America today. Her words sing, slide, slip, & jive. I love everything by Joan.
–Natalie Goldberg, author, Writing Down the Bones

Her galloping domestic ecstasies teach everyone who knows her the pure crazy linkages of love.
–Judyth Hill, author, Men Need Space

Kudos for Sofía:

Sofía is such a lovely and wonderful, heartbreaking and heat-uplifting little book. What an exquisite poem to this place!!!!!
–John Nichols, author, Milagro Bean Field War

Sofía is a collection to be read as one reads a memoir of passions and sorrows, of convergences and heritages found in the art of reminiscing
and never allowing to forget.
–Marjorie Agosin

Sofía dances off these pages, with earthy songs, tears and prayers, a bride to life’s blessings and sorrows come to reawaken your heart. I love this book.
–Jack Kornfield, author, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

In the tradition of Neruda, Joan Logghe weaves the everyday stuff of life into shimmering garments of beauty. They are not one-size-fits all, and that is the measure of their wisdom, and yes, their longevity.
–Jim Sagel

These remarkable, richly imagined poems bring to life the sprituality of the New Mexico landscape—in the wondrous odyssey of a woman, Sofía.
–Demetria Martinez

Applause for Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man:
A collection of marriage poems written over the criss & cross of a long marriage—feel the knife-edge witness of desire, the hard grip and caress of affection transformed by the everyday clarity of relationship. Move from the impossible into the possible into the trembling rose connected to the solar plexus. Yes, one can either “cling to nothing” or dance, rave and marvel. Peer through that veil of destinies where partners watch each other eat breakfast. Who hasn’t touched these thoughts in the practice of love? Dear reader— there will never be a map, one simply wakes up to a new morning’s light.
–Jessica Allen

“These are the first love poems that ever made me want to write love poems. Their splendid power is contagious! Joan Logghe has given us a passionate, fragrant feast, a vast embrace. I love the wacky, wise humor of these poems best of all.”
–Naomi Shihab Nye

“Much of this sprightly collection deals with marriage, which Logghe views with wit, philosophy, and a dash of irreverence…Joan Logghe knows whereof she speaks, and she makes us feel the emotional roads that she has traveled. “
–Peter Thorpe

“These are poems of passion and anger, love and hate, understanding and misunderstanding, defiance and resolution all strung along the time line of an enduring marriage. Logghe has done more than hang her marital laundry out for everybody to see. She has touched it all with poetry in abundance and variety and with a generous heart to give it a life of its own.”
–Walter Howerton Jr

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