Northwest Passage

About the Book

Northwest Passage presents a collection of poems that traces the poet Wayne Luckmann’s own development and the development of his poetry in both style and substance. The poems in this collection present the significance and meaning of various events during several decades, many of those events taking place within the rich setting of the Pacific Northwest.

From the disturbing imagery of “Nuremburg Revisited” to the hope of a new year in “Reconnaissance,” Luckmann offers his responses to his environment, the lives of people who have had a significant influence on the history of ideas, and events in his own development.

“Wayne Luckmann writes with a gathering force. Image is added carefully to image to combine an emotional with an intellectual effect. His desire to combine intellectual reactions with emotional responses dictates situation, language, and length in his poetry. A situation suggests an idea in turn suggesting language and a poem begins to emerge.”

—Spring Rain Press

Aftermath

About the Author

Wayne Luckmann’s first and abiding love has been poetry. He studied literature and philosophy at Berkeley, Claremont Graduate Center, and finally at the University of Washington, pursuing doctoral studies in philosophy of education. For over four decades he has taught humanities classes at a college in Auburn, Washington. He divides his time between Arizona and Washington State.