How does Judith Monroe's poetry differ from her contemporaries? A reader has said that her poems last, popping into one's mind unbidden but always welcome, and that her poetry does what the best poetry has always done which is to find the universal in the particular. From the pages of Searching for Jenny Moses, her poetry sings out. The narrative style fits the subjects she writes of, colorful, quirky and touching. She invites, and in some cases, dares the reader to experience tragic loss. The lyrical poems, however, tend ...
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How does Judith Monroe's poetry differ from her contemporaries? A reader has said that her poems last, popping into one's mind unbidden but always welcome, and that her poetry does what the best poetry has always done which is to find the universal in the particular. From the pages of Searching for Jenny Moses, her poetry sings out. The narrative style fits the subjects she writes of, colorful, quirky and touching. She invites, and in some cases, dares the reader to experience tragic loss. The lyrical poems, however, tend to be snapshots of nature's beauty. Monroe has characterized her work as poetry verite, she, a hand-held camera, whose pictures she develops and frames, then offered to the reader. Most of all her poetry shines a light on the everyday. She celebrates the pedestrian events as precious and well worth recording. The essence of Judith Monroe's power lies in the journey she has taken over a lifetime of searching for meaning. She graduated from Simmons College with a degree in Library Science, studied piano at the New England Conservatory and at Goddard College she earned a Masters in Group and Interpersonal Dynamics. She is eighty years old and lives in Hallowell, Maine, and summers on Swans Island.
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