Against the Blue 

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Every poem moves, but Julia McConnell’s poems harness a particular lightening energy born of a season of storms. From the jangled bracelets of hidden cuts to the translucence of a lantern tree, from the accelerator pressed to the floor to the sound of an icy shovel on the grave, these poems show us how to live in the turbulence. I like how McConnell can declare the poet’s failure to do her job and how she can almost despair of touching the true wound, but then finds the perfect lightening rod to keep us alive and moving toward the next horizon.
–Jane Taylor author of “Pencil Light”