Commentary on Judyth Hill’s Work….
Don’t look for the mini-tragedies of office affairs or the wine-soaked ambiguities of fashionable angst in the poetry of Judyth Hill. No, she is post-Blakean exuberance, shamelessly ecstatic and exclamatory, proclaiming her unfettered joy in being alive.
--Sam Hamill, author of over 40 books, 15 books of original poetry, 4 collections of essays, 2 dozen books of translations, founding editor of Copper Canyon Press
Judyth Hill’s Dazzling Wobble is a whirling dervish—a love poem, not only to the you, and to the reader, but to a luminous world where “every alley, every sidewalk crack is breathing in enormous broken joy.” Writing with the ecstasy of a postmodern Rumi, Hill weaves together everything to create a sensuous and generous presence, where “this warmth on my skin is delicious and irrevocable.”
-- Rebecca Seiferle, author of 6 books of poetry and translations, latest book: Wild Tongue; Poet Laureate of Tucson Arizona; Editor of The Drunken Boat
Judyth Hill is a "Doorway Woman", offering us a freshly visioned world, a world to wake our hearts. These poems move where the possibilities are vast. She can suddenly burst into wind or rain or desert flower; a woman who says "Take me as bedrock". These lines are full of song and wind and heart and love.
--Gary Lawless , author of 16 books, latest book: How to Live On The Planet Earth - Collected Poems, Nanao Sakaki (Author), Gary Lawless (Editor)
Judyth Hill is a poetic transformer whose work lights up the reader's whole body/mind power grid. Her sensuous lists find the musical in the commonplace and her Blakean insights keep reminding us of the world's hidden splendor, “The hummingbird’s fierce morsel of a heart races, / even while asleep". “At a moment when too much American poetry seems colorless and lethargic, Hill returns to us the shock of something at once new and ancient: the sheer elation of being alive.
—Joseph Hutchison, author of 10 books, latest is Thread of the Real.
A lush and lavish glossolalia, Hill’s language both conceives and contains love, to get inside its nature and the natural world which call us out of ourselves into larger and larger loving...Hill’s poems seem written in “juggernaut gold.”
-- Veronica Golos, author of Vocabulary of Silence
The interplay of desire and satisfaction remains Judyth Hill’s storyline—the way of delectable and words to roll around on the tongue. She follows the Peach Pie Strategy of bounty. “Be prepared for anything, absolutely anything,” she says. This speaks for itself. Friend, come to this world in a big way, be tough, read these poems and swing as the Goddess of Love.
-- JB Bryan, author of How Can I Follow My Beautiful Dreams ?, 3 chapbooks, and editor/publisher at La Alameda Press
