Synopses & Reviews
Award-winning Oregon poet Paulann Petersen, says of
Pulse & Constellation, "Here is a voice of sorrows confronted and stayed, a voice holding loss in abeyance so it can sing of praise and wonder....Rich in music, these poems show us that we "...have only to pause,/ to admit through thin places/ the passage of light." Five stars for Judith Montgomery's newest collection, this "exquisite inquisition" into the heart's mysteries.
Montgomery's first chapbook, Passion, received the Oregon Book Award for Poetry in 2000, and her full-length book, Red Jess, was published by Cherry Grove Collections in 2006, while she was Poet-in-Residence at Central Oregon Community College.
Synopsis
The poems in truth, love, and the lines in between ride the convergence of O'Hara's ability to focus on the everyday and Steinbeck's passion for his subjects. Regardless of the particular content of each poem, this collection reveals a mind grappling with the precarious relationship between how we represent the world and its complexities. Rabinowitz's brilliant, succinct verse conjures sensual and complex images, examines the natural strength of the earth and of love, and is the result of deep contemplation and self reflection. Rabinowitz seizes each moment of experience, studies it with keen intelligence, and then complicates and delivers his insights with eloquence, leaving the reader satiated. With poems that beg their form, lines that ring with verity, and engaging subject matter, there is no doubt that truth, love, and the lines in between is a standout collection.
About the Author
Judith H. Montgomery's poems appear in The Southern Review, The Bellingham Review, Gulf Coast, and Northwest Review, among other journals, as well as in several anthologies. She has been awarded two fellowships in poetry from Literary Arts, as well as an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission to work on new manuscripts (Blue Fields, Burning and Inter/View); residencies from Soapstone and Caldera; and first prizes in poetry from the National Writers Union, Portland Pen, America's Review, Red Rock Review, Chaffin Journal, and The Bellingham Review. Her chapbook, Passion, received the 2000 Oregon Book Award for poetry. Her first full-length collection, Red Jess, appeared in February 2006. Her new chapbook, Pulse & Constellation, just appeared from Finishing Line Press. She holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Syracuse University, and was poet-in-residence at Central Oregon Community College in 20052006.