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By turns joyful, melancholy, angry, and hopeful, Lois Mathieu’s Snow Raining on Glass presents honest, vivid, sensual poems that are revelatory and replete with startling images. They reward multiple readings but are eminently accessible, avoiding needless obscurity. Carol B. Shmurak writes, "Ranging from the whimsical to the elegiac, Lois Mathieu’s poems are accessible even for those who do not ordinarily read poetry. There is deep feeling beneath the surface of some of her poems and a gentle wit smiling through others. Her play with rhyme and form add to the pleasure of reading Snow Raining on Glass."
Lois Mathieu, a Connecticut native, writes poetry and fiction. She earned a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Syracuse University and an M.A. in English from Trinity College. Thereafter, she worked in the corporate world as a manager of customer documentation and made friends across the globe during many working trips to Japan. Her poems have been issued by journals such as Calyx, Connecticut River Review, Connecticut Poets at Work, Embers, and Portland Review. They have also appeared in anthologies: the Texas Tech University Press anthology, Blood to Remember, American Poets on the Holocaust; and the Northwoods Press anthology, Sweet as Hautboys, Green as Prairies. Her poem “Counting Sheep by Night” won the Joseph E. Brodine Award presented by The Connecticut Poetry Society. Lois has written poetry reviews for the journal Gargoyle; and she is the author of three novels: Debut, Song for My Birth Mother; The Next to Last Drink (named to Kirkus Review’s Best of 2012 list); and Women Under Siege. Lois Mathieu is married to writer William L. Newell, Professor Emeritus at Eastern Connecticut State University. They live in Bloomfield, CT, and have two children as well as four grandchildren.
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