Finding Peaches in the Desert

This is the first collection of poetry by American Book Award winner Pamela Uschuk. FINDING PEACHES IN THE DESERT won the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council. Luis Urrea wrote of this book, "Whether she writes of the sexy quiet of marriage . . . or the lacerating political rage that bursts out of many of these pages, Uschuk maintains the light that burns in her chest. All the landscapes here – from the desert's rumpled floor to the poet’s own bed to the torture chambers of Chile – are alive and vivid with this light." Joy Harjo calls it a "sensual garden."

Pam Uschuk is editor-In-Chief of the literary magazine, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts and a professor of Creative Writing at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Uschuk's literary prizes include the the Struga International Poetry Prize, the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council for Finding Peaches in the Desert, The King’s English Prize, as well as the American Book Award and awards from the Chester H. Jones Foundation, Iris, Ascent, Sandhills Review, and Amnesty International. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages, including Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Macedonian, Swedish, Russian, and Spanish.