Blue Scorpion Poems

Julie Fay's magnificent Blue Scorpion seeks out the ?dense and promising weather? of experience and reports generously on marriage, motherhood, friendship, and expatriate life. But what makes her poems powerful and unique is the way, regardless of their subject, they are always in touch with the ?liquid fire our bodies? goblets contain.' This fire does not burn but rather it illuminates all the particularities and passions of our lives with a warm and steady flame.'Michael CollierIt's rare that a book of poems is as successful as this one at character portraiture. Any reader will appreciate the rock-collecting girl-child enchanted by nomenclature, the punning Italian-French stonemason, the keen-eyed village neighbor, or the manic-depressive octogenarian father. I think of Rukeyser when I read this poet's descriptions of sexual passion, its presence and its failures between the no-longer young, of the corporeal world of a woman closer to menopause than puberty, at ease in her body, for whom the connections between the intimate and the global are always present. In the interactions of this American woman with her community of choice'a village in the Herault region of southwest France, Julie Fay deftly marks the sites of her entry and integration and those where she will remain foreign.'Marilyn HackerFay, Julie is the author of 'Blue Scorpion Poems', published 2005 under ISBN 9781931112475 and ISBN 1931112479.