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You can purchase Judith's books online at Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com. Just click the links by each book description below to do so.
Heat Lightning, New & Selected Poems 1986 - 2006 |
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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.
Buy
Heat Lightning at Amazon.com
Published
by Silverfish Review Press,
152 pages.
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Coppelia, Certain Digressions |  | "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
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Circe's Island |
| "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
Read reviews of Circe's Island.
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Published by Silverfish Review Press, 2003
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Storm |
| "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
Read a review of Storm
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Published by Blue Begonia Press, 1998
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Red Town |
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"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
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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.
Buy Sweetbrier at Empty Mirror Books or Barnes & Noble.
Published by Blue Begonia Press, Working Signs Series, 2001
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Special Signed Books Bundle - "The Quartet" |
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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.
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