Description
Poetry. "Judith Farr's literary talents are known, and now she gives us new poetry with mastery of language, lasting characters; her soul and heart connected to the word. A seasoned writer keeps the promise that storytelling becomes poetry only when language is renewed with beauty. I love reading Farr's created events; especially the artists and historical figures she breathes alive with craft and grace. Writing the long-form narrative means holding change and continuity together. The strategies and techniques are beneath the line, but we don't read these poems for 'technique,' as fine as it is, but for the life energy in Judith Farr's imagination. And we read because we want the humaneness that's found there."—Grace Cavalieri
"'She required bloom,' the gardener declares and, 'throwing the shutters open'—poetry ensues. At once magisterial and tender, elegant and earthy, economical and resplendent, these poems are imbued with authority of voice and breathtaking beauty. Judith Farr's WHAT LIES BEYOND is, quite simply, an astonishing book."—Maxine Silverman
Author Bio
Judith Farr, Professor Emerita of English and American Literature at Georgetown University, is a poet, novelist and literary critic. She has been publishing poetry since Marianne Moore selected her verse to appear in the Riverside Anthology (1958) when she was a teenager. A well- known Dickinson scholar, her books include The Passion of Emily Dickinson (Harvard UP, 1992), a "Notable Book" of The New York Times and winner of the Association of American Publishers' Prize for Literary Criticism. The Gardens of Emily Dickinson (Harvard UP, 2004) won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize of the British Academy for the Best Book Written on a Literary Topic by a Woman that year. In 2009- 10, the New York Botanical Garden mounted an exhibition based on the book. Her novel I Never Came to You in White (1996) about Dickinson's school years was runner-up for the PEN-Hemingway Prize of the Los Angeles Times. She has lectured at many cultural and educational institutions, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Museum of Women in the Arts, Barnard College, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Author City: WASHINGTON, DC USA