GHOST NOTES by Judy Rowe Michaels

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Ghost Notes is the perfect title for these percussive lyrics which begin with duet and end with solo; for a musician and widow mourning her music-loving husband while fighting a fifth cancer recurrence; for a speaker neither fully present nor absent; for poems vigorously alive, hauntingly beautiful and darkly humorous: “does cancer love me, or not…drink the Contrast,/white coat, X-rays,/say cheese”; and all told, surprisingly “sprightly,/good for a long night,” of pleasure in reading and re-reading this lovely, unflinching book.

–April Ossmann, editor, former executive director of Alice James Books, author of “Anxious Music

Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

 

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GHOST NOTES

by Judy Rowe Michaels

$14.49, paper

Judy Rowe Michaels is the author of The Forest of Wild Hands part of University Press of Florida’s Contemporary Poetry Series, and in 2010 her second book, Reviewing the Skull, was published by Word Tech Editions. Michaels’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry North1JJest, The New Ohio Review, The Womens Review of Books, Nimrod, River Styx, The L iterary Review, and Journal of New Jersy Poets. She has received two poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and is a MacDowell Colony Fellow. is the author of The Forest of Wild Hands part of University Press of Florida’s Contemporary Poetry Series, and in 2010 her second book, Reviewing the Skull, was published by Word Tech Editions. Michaels’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry North1JJest, The New Ohio Review, The Womens Review of Books, Nimrod, River Styx, The L iterary Review, and Journal of New Jersy Poets. She has received two poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and is a MacDowell Colony Fellow.

1 review for GHOST NOTES by Judy Rowe Michaels

  1. Jami Macarty (verified owner)

    Judy Rowe Michael’s poems are composed of fierce, unflinching music whose metronome is cancer and the death of a life partner. In these emotionally authentic, intelligent, and generous poems, the reader is treated as a respected and intimate guest, and remarkably, so’s cancer “on these trails seething” with life and “the far salt haze.”

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