Thorny by Judith Baumel
Walt Whitman Award winner Judith Baumel’s latest collection of poems, Thorny, is a fearless and poignant book connecting political displacement with personal and generational loss. Through rumination and subtle intrigue, Baumel invites readers to travel with her from the mystical pathways of Italy to war-torn Europe to the gutters and sidewalk cracks of the Bronx.
Baumel’s thoughtful meditations rise above and snarl in the rock and sinew of the world, then pull the reader into a robust embrace. Casually erudite and recklessly passionate, Thorny brings past and present into close conversation, illuminating both. Come read for yourself why author Jan-Henry Gray calls this book “Multi-directional, polyvocal, erudite, daring, and sly — these poems are the yield of a life both well- observed and deeply felt.”
Walt Whitman Award winner Judith Baumel’s latest collection of poems, Thorny, is a fearless and poignant book connecting political displacement with personal and generational loss. Through rumination and subtle intrigue, Baumel invites readers to travel with her from the mystical pathways of Italy to war-torn Europe to the gutters and sidewalk cracks of the Bronx.
Baumel’s thoughtful meditations rise above and snarl in the rock and sinew of the world, then pull the reader into a robust embrace. Casually erudite and recklessly passionate, Thorny brings past and present into close conversation, illuminating both. Come read for yourself why author Jan-Henry Gray calls this book “Multi-directional, polyvocal, erudite, daring, and sly — these poems are the yield of a life both well- observed and deeply felt.”
Walt Whitman Award winner Judith Baumel’s latest collection of poems, Thorny, is a fearless and poignant book connecting political displacement with personal and generational loss. Through rumination and subtle intrigue, Baumel invites readers to travel with her from the mystical pathways of Italy to war-torn Europe to the gutters and sidewalk cracks of the Bronx.
Baumel’s thoughtful meditations rise above and snarl in the rock and sinew of the world, then pull the reader into a robust embrace. Casually erudite and recklessly passionate, Thorny brings past and present into close conversation, illuminating both. Come read for yourself why author Jan-Henry Gray calls this book “Multi-directional, polyvocal, erudite, daring, and sly — these poems are the yield of a life both well- observed and deeply felt.”
