New from FutureCycle Press |
Judyth Hill
GALA Book Launch!
Friday, March 29, 2013
7:00 ~ 8:00 pm
Innisfree Poetry Book Store
1203 13th St, Boulder, CO 80302 ~ (303) 579-1644
at Broadway & Pleasant St
For more information: innisfreepoetry@gmail.com
Just Released from FutureCycle Press
Here’s a taste….
Woven So Entire
I’ll never fall out of this loving,
from where to where could I fall?When held, in canyon, by riverbank,
in blaze of starfire, or inky pitch of night,what could I be but desert varnish wept onto rockface?
Turned by wind into purely music, desire’s fabric,homespun for the Beloved, girdle for his waist,
O most beautiful one,I have nothing to say anymore.
Love has woven me a coat of quiet.
I was lucky enough to read this in manuscript. How much of what I said about the book made it onto the book I don’t know, but here’s what I wrote for blurb purposes:
Judyth Hill is a poetic transformer whose work lights up the reader’s whole body/mind power grid. Her sensuous lists find the musical in the commonplace and her Blakean insights keep reminding us of the world’s hidden splendor (“The hummingbird’s fierce morsel of a heart races, / even while asleep”). She even channels the voice of the “Songs of Songs”: “Lay me down, then, in the lap of the divine.” At a moment when too much American poetry seems colorless and lethargic, Hill returns to us the shock of something at once new and ancient: the sheer elation of being alive.
And I stand by every word!
You can read more about Judyth here. Hope to see you at the reading!
for me<br />this link to her (and her work) is<br />a much needed<br />breath-of-fresh-air<br /><br />I just read her bio over on her site and see<br />that she lives in the hills/mountains just <br />outside of San Miguel de Allende<br /><br />coincidences:<br />-I lived in San Miguel for nearly a year in<br />1967-68<br /><br />- just a few moments ago I sent you a crayoned<br />piece apropos