“Within these snatches of song lies a poetry that is wise as the moon, old as the sea, ecological as a watershed, and endlessly searching.” --Andrew Schelling
Bird: A Graphic Fable
A fold-out graphic fable.
X-ing the Acheron "Julia Connor's poems are spare and elliptical but straight to the heart of things. I admire (in the words of one of the poems) their stark elegance." --Dennis Schmitz "Connor is nimble, her writing rich and nubby." --Viola Weinberg
Gradual Map
"I have admired the singular lyricism and highly engaged 'ear' of her craft...a poet of the first order. " --Anne Waldman
A Canto For The Birds
A Canto for the Birds "One feels the refined precision of poems in the "Greek Anthology"; there are few poems flowing with this grace and forthrightness." --Michael McClure
The Delta Poem
" A thoughtful and precise work of poetry and history, eloquently crafted, woven with subtle intent and grace. Connor's work sustains a lucidity, a clarifying presence of light works through her text. Its clarities enhance the mysteries it follows. An exciting demonstration of how a poet places herself in a landscape unthinkable without her." --David Meltzer
Corresponding Flowers
"...a strong and powerful voice ... depicting areas of human experience, and in particular the female experience, in a unique and powerful way." --Diane di Prima