"Youth floats by on a
forever blue sky day." If the delicious freefall of first love
has faded from your memory, read The Language of Small Rooms.
These poems are as delicate as "a painting in the air." The
tightly controlled verse and the tension between the lovers pull
the reader forward. Judith Bader Jones shows us how a summer
romance, if you are strong enough to live with longing and
regret, can fortify the heart.
Delta Pearls Delta Peals is a compilation of "friend pictures, people
pictures, fluttering about on the coldest days when weather has
just kicked up a cloudburst of snow."
In a world where technological innovation and mass media are
homogenizing American English, Judith Bader Jones preserves the
beauty of the vernacular language distinctive to the Missouri
Delta that "mosquito infested backdrop of civilization" - and
captures the heart of people in the process of loving and
losing, being and becoming.
Moon Flowers on the Fence Moon Flowers on the Fence is a work of reflection, back to the
easy glide of rural life, of remembering family stories with "A
spinster aunt, dry as knotted thread," supple beauty that comes
with the "blush of womanhood" and the loves of youth. Maryfrances Wagner
author of Red Silk, Light Subtracts Itself and
Salvatore's Daughter
