In this new collection, Luci Shaw holds up both world and words to the light, revealing to you what has been there all along and teaching you how to see it for yourself--with honesty, precision and patience."When William Stafford died, I wondered who there was to carry on in his spirit--humane, attentive, droll, faithful, one for whom writing poetry was as natural as breathing. And, reading What the Light Was Like, I see it has been Luci Shaw all along. Mark Jarman, author of To the Green Man and Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry. "This is Luci Shaw's strongest book of poems yet, page after page gifting us with one authentic and felicitous revelation after another. Paul Mariani, author of Thirty Days and Deaths & Transfigurations: Poems."Lovely, original, deeply felt work from one of America's most thoughtful spiritual poets. Luci Shaw once again startles us awake with her great talent and profound insights." Philip Zaleski editor, The Best American Spiritual Writing series.