Rolling the Sun [Paperback]

Julia Older (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2005

A poetry collection drawing upon the deeper human links to the powerful glories of the natural world where life and landscape become one.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Each poem through nature-based images creates an inner world in now delicate now fierce poems." --Jennifer MacPherson, The Comstock Review

Julia Older's work is substantive and colorful. "Its universal themes open us to opportunities of delight." --Susan Britt, Gloucester Times

About the Author

Julia Older's poems, stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Poets & Writers, Entelechy International and many other magazines and anthologies. Her eight poetry collections include the original verse drama "Tales of the Francois Vase" syndicated on nationwide Public Radio and "Hermaphroditus in America," a booklength poem. She is the author of the biographical novel "The Island Queen" about Celia Thaxter of The Isles of Shoals off the northern New England coast and editor of the anthology "Celia Thaxter: Selected Writings."

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Appledore Books (June 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974148814
• ISBN-13: 978-0974148816
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,073,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cuts Through the Pretense, February 9, 2009

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Patricia Kramer (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rolling the Sun (Paperback)

A dear friend gave me this book before Christmas but I have had to spread out my time reading it because it is so powerful and challenges all my pretenses. This is not poetry to be read lightly. I am afraid to even read some of them again, but here is a sample. Many are more obtuse.

Breaking Out

What is your prison?
Is it a cell with bars and a cot?

Or the nursing home window
where your bedridden mother looks out?

The day you quit school?
Settled your divorce?

The glass ceiling,
doing the dishes,
a missed period?

Define your prison. Plot
how to steal the keys.
One of them has got to fit the lock.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely beautiful, October 12, 2005

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Jiminy Durrell "Jiminy Durrell" (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rolling the Sun (Paperback)

I was reading some of Julia Older's poems to my diva friend Lisa over the phone and she said "These are beautiful, how did something this beautiful get published?"
These poems are a cosmic garden. I love this book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful, October 1, 2005

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Mark Williams "Jiggy" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rolling the Sun (Paperback)

Ms. Older's poetry deftly explores the light and shadow that's scattered about the landscape of the soul. Her communion with Nature is as honest and forthright as it is gentle. Rolling the Sun is accessible and universal.