{"product_id":"lucky-charms-new-selected-poems-2000-2025-9780872869455","title":"Lucky Charms: New \u0026 Selected Poems, 2000-2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly's\u003c\/i\u003e Most Anticipated Poetry Books for 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA career-spanning Southern Goth infusion into the California poetic tradition of eco-social consciousness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Poems moving as music, first thought the first chord, playing with trust to a notion of free improvisation, rhythm guiding the tongue to an ending fade. . . . Sunnylyn's voice is on the radio, some mystic Southern station, and it sounds beautiful.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eThurston Moore, founding member of Sonic Youth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince her arrival in San Francisco from New Orleans via the now-legendary New College Writing and Consciousness program, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux has been an integral and idiosyncratic voice in Bay Area poetry. \u003cem\u003eLucky Charms\u003c\/em\u003e maps her creative trajectory over a 25-year period, from fugitive zines and pamphlets through full-length volumes, and concludes with a substantial selection of new and previously uncollected poems, which, as Alice Notley has written, find her seeking out \"pleasure amid personal and societal dread.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThibodeaux writes of the cosmic and spiritual from a profoundly human perspective. There are reflections on New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, loving snapshots of motherhood, wrestlings with mortality through cancer diagnoses, grieving over losses of friends and family, all set against the struggle to stay true to the earth and to her calling as a poet. Embodying its title, \u003cem\u003eLucky Charms \u003c\/em\u003eoffers the poem as talisman, a lyric device for capturing magic and releasing it into the world, wielded masterfully by a poetic persona that partakes of the botanist, the alchemist, the astrologist, and the witch all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Orleans native \u003cb\u003eSunnylyn Thibodeaux\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eThe World Exactly\u003c\/em\u003e (Cuneiform Books, 2020), as well as over a dozen small books, including \u003cem\u003eWitch Like Me\u003c\/em\u003e from the Operating System. A graduate of the legendary New College poetry program, where she studied with the likes of Joanne Kyger and David Meltzer, she was also co-publisher of Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editons. Thibodeaux is a teacher, neighborhood activist, and tree enthusiast. She is the mother of a Scorpio and wife of a poet and splits her time between San Francisco and New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160364151058,"sku":"9780872869455","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ca3b33ae-7691-4de7-b5ed-1c3b7d78f2de.jpg?v=1775055648","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lucky-charms-new-selected-poems-2000-2025-9780872869455","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}