Judith Skillman - Poet

Judith Skillman Books
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Heat Lightning, New & Selected Poems 1986 - 2006

Heat Lightning by Judith Skillman

Includes selections from Judith’s seven previously published books, plus a ‘New Poems’ section. Work from Heat Lightning has appeared in Poetry, FIELD, Southern Review, The Iowa Review, Seneca Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals.

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Published by Silverfish Review Press, 152 pages.

Coppelia, Certain Digressions

Coppelia: Certain Digressions by Judith Skillman. Royal Nebeker, Study for Opus 54, No. 2, 1999, oil on paper, 11.25 x 14.75. Copyright 1999 by the artist. Courtesy of Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

"In Coppelia, Certain Digressions, Judith Skillman explores beyond the puppet's passivity, the careful appearance of the doll, to plumb the machinations and manipulations of womanhood in all its expectations and realities. Throughout these poems, she uses taut language and subliminal imagery to evoke the feminine role in its many forms...mother, daughter, sister, wife...and the relationships to children and spouses as well as, ultimately, the past and the sometimes painful, often mundane path of aging. Beyond simple beauty, in this collection Skillman has crafted a resonant reminder of survival."
-- Joannie Kervran Stangeland 

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Published by David Robert Books, 2006

Latticework

Latticework by Judith Skillman This collection of poems, inspired by Judith Skillman's collaboration with textile artist Erika Carter, was selected by Contemporary Quilt Arts "Visual Verse Project" for a five year traveling display of quilts and poems.

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Published by David Robert Books, 2004

Circe's Island

Circe's Island by Judith Skillman "Judith Skillman sings. She sings of home so as to define it. She sings home back to origins, both Hebrew and Hellenic, that give it warmth and meaning. Her precise, quick-stepping lyrics help us find out own way home, and to face the mystery of never fully knowing it." - David Hamilton, Editor, The Iowa Review

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Published by Silverfish Review Press, 2003

Storm

Storm by Judith Skillman "The apparent normalcy of the world of these poems is a thin ice on which the speaker pauses, scarily, suspended over a turmoil of delusion, cruelty, and materialism, over our deepest personal and cultural terrors, over the tidal surge of history, remaining calms and deeply inquisitive, singing a little."
-- John Witte, Editor, Northwest Review

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Published by Blue Begonia Press, 1998

Red Town

Red Town by Judith Skillman "Language shuffles the ground between inner and outer landscapes, yielding poems that hover in a dreamlike present and in the nearness of another, yet more revelatory vision to come." - Charlene Breedlove, Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association

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Published by Silverfish Review Press, 2001

Sweetbrier

In Sweetbrier, the elegy is given new treatment. Aspects of physics and nature come together to prefigure loss and define its role as essential to transformation. The world of poems in this book is populated by summer landscapes that include crabapple, hawthorn, hyacinth, honeysuckle, and cottonwood.

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Published by Blue Begonia Press, Working Signs Series, 2001

Beethoven and the Birds

Beethoven and the Birds by Judith Skillman "This fine collection translates the music of chaos into the music of unwavering attention. Filled with historical insight and personal illumination, Beethoven and the Birds is an elegant, complex achievement." -- Linda Bierds

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Published by Blue Begonia Press, 1996

Worship of the Visible Spectrum

Worship of the Visible Spectrum by Judith Skillman "...Worship of the Visible Spectrum attaches itself to the mind's eye, leaves afterimages that enlarge the reader's world and living in it memorable." ~ Madeline DeFrees

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Published by Breitenbush Books, 1988

Special Signed Books Bundle - "The Quartet"

Special book bundle offer by Judith Skillman Purchase all four of Judith Skillman's books illustrated by Priscilla Maynard for just $25, plus $5 postage and handling.

"Beethoven and the Birds" is the overture; "Storm" the allegro, "Red Town" the largo, and "Circe's Island" the reprise.

Don't miss this opportunity to receive the full collection, signed by the author, at this new low price. This bundle is available directly from the author; to order, please email your request to Judith.