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Reviews for Tuscany Light
by Richard Miles, Poet/Teacher, former director, Iowa Writers School, Poetry Division
Ms. Lombardi's Tuscany Light poems combine to give us an actual heaven. In the Tuscan hills, San Gimignano and its convento is a retreat to which she withdraws periodically, both in person and in imagination while at home on the Maine coast. Lending shape to these poems are the bones of Italy--figs, persimmons, dogs, walnuts, bread, apples, wine, brothers and their chants--in this enchanted, time-stopped town where the physical and the spiritual overlap.
Sample from Tuscany Light
Plague Season
In the early oil paintings,
the doctors who treated the ill
during the plague had large
pointed beaks made, and
filled with flowers and herbs,
tied over their mouths and noses to ward
off the vapours of the
disease.
This season all the young
Italian women walking
the streets of San Gimignano
are wearing bird's
beak shaped boots,
and I wonder
if they are stuffing the beaks with
flowers and herbs, and what
disease it is
they are warding off.
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