<p>"Priscilla Long contains multitudes: scientific writer, art scholar, social activist, historical enthusiast, and well-published poet. If we are, as Muriel Rukeyser might compel us 'to learn the edges of darkness,' then we must also experience illuminations both resplendent and routine: light beaming on glorious yellows and bawdy purples, spiritual blues and restful greens. Reading this book, I feel as if I'm being skillfully guided by someone who knows art and, perhaps more vividly, believes in how art makes our lives more resonant-sometimes more pleasantly aware, sometimes more susceptible to pain, but always more fully felt."</p><p>~ Tod Marshall, Washington State Poet Laureate, 2016-2018</p><p><br></p><p>"<em>Holy Magic</em> leans into the palette of our days and lays out the case, poem by poem, that the light vibrations that surround us are more than a scientific fact, they enter our bodies, trigger our imaginations, inform our moods, soothe our senses. In 'A Glass of Bitter Ale,' we see the yellow tinge of a bruise, a raincoat glistening with rain and consider the tonalities of pee.</p><p>Hues echo and inform each other in these poems, much in the way life experiences paint and retouch a person's life. Long transmutes life's magic from color to syllables for our delight in these varied and inventive poems. From the tragic, via the mundane, to the sublime, <em>Holy Magic</em> hums in technicolor the song of our existence."</p><p>~ Claudia Castro Luna, Washington State Poet Laureate, 2018-2021</p>