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"Like Joy is Glenna Cook's third book. She shares with us her determination ""to live life fully and purposefully"" in her thoughtful and carefully crafted poems. Whether she is writingabout the childhood wonder of mistaking a hummingbird for ""the biggest bumblebee I ever saw,"" or current affairs, her poems are direct and honest-wisdom distilled from livingthrough loss and joy. ""Life doesn't promise a picnic in the park at the end,"" she asserts, but ""I haven't forgotten how to laugh.""-Sharon M. Carter, author of Quiver (Tebot Bach) Glenna Cook is a fighter, though her poetry wise and gentle, reminds us to treasure the beauty even as we struggle through loss. In this third collection, Like Joy, she argues withMr. Parkinson and tells us, ""My most boring task is sorting / through my ego for something / I've lost that I've never needed."" In ""Wonder"" she writes, ""Wake up! / You are surroundedby marvels /that could astound you. / Claim them for your own / and let them change you.""-Debra Elisa, author of You Can Call It Beautiful"

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Like Joy is Glenna Cook's third full-length collection of poems, all published by MoonPath Press. The first is Thresholds (2017), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award for Poetry in 2018. The second is Shapes of Time (2022).Cook grew up in Olympia, Washington, where, at age 18, she married her husband, Kenneth. They had 3 children (their oldest, a son, died of cancer in 2016 at age 60), and she has9 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. After a 25-year career with the telephone company, she retired from US West Communications in 1990, then immediately enrolled in college. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound, Magna cum Laude in 1994 at age 58, with a BA in English Literature. While at university, she won the Hearst Essay Prize for the Humanities and the Nixeon Civille Handy Prize in poetry. She is a Hedgebrook alumna and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. She has read her poetry many places in the Puget Sound region, and published dozens of poems in journals and anthologies, the latest being This Light Called Darkness, a Raven Chroniclesanthology (2023), and When a Woman Tells the Truth: Writings and Creative Work by Women Over 80, edited by Dena Taylor and Wilma Marcus Chandler (2024). Her husband died in 2018, after 63 years of marriage. Cook has Parkinson's disease, which she keeps at bay with medicine, diet, and a rigorous exercise program. She serves as an advocate for others with Parkinson's disease. She loves reading, watching PBS and Netflix, taking walks, and interacting with people. Two of her favorite sayings are: We make our own weather, and (fromRumi) What you seek is seeking you.

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