IN THE TEETH OF TIME: Poems 1971-2004 by Judith Searle (CONFLU:X Press, Marina Del Rey, CA. ISBN 0-9753559-4-5. 80 pages. $16) "At once erudite and bawdy, grief-stricken and love-struck, Judith Searle's unique poems smite the soul." "Reading In the Teeth of Time, by Judith Searle, I think of the poet Adam Zagajewski's declaration, 'Only in the beauty created/by others is there consolation/in the music of others and in others' poems...' I am consoled by these beautiful poems of love and loss and joy. And, I am moved to agree with this line from the title poem, that it is indeed 'Worth it to be mortal on a day like this.'" "In Judith Searle's book of poems, there is everything we look for in poetry: music, elegance, a well-furnished mind, a sense of humor and a depth charge of eroticism. There is, in addition, something more— a quality so rare I'd almost given up looking for it: an encounter with life in all its fullness and fineness. No easy answers to fierce sorrows, no false triumph at sweet savorings; rather, as Searle writes of a musician, 'every erg of energy perfectly judged.'"
JUDITH SEARLE'S poems have appeared in Milkweed Chronicle, Tucumcari Literary Review, The New York Times, The Vineyard Gazette, and Cosmopolitan, among other publications. She has performed her one-woman poetry program, "The Ages of Woman," at various venues in New York and Los Angeles. She is the author of a novel, Lovelife (NAL books). Her nonfiction books include The Literary Enneagram: Characters from the Inside Out and Getting the Part, a book for actors. A member of the Writers Guild of America, the Authors Guild, and the Screen Actors Guild, she heads The Editorial Department, a Santa Monica company that offers literary services to authors and publishers. |
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