Still Life with Judas & Lightning

Poetry. 2015 Oregon Book Award Finalist. Following "the caravan of mystery" through the point of view of many characters, Dawn Diez Willis's first collection enacts a pilgrimage into many voices. Ruminating on an everyday darkness, these poems lean toward the light within the fierce vitality of existence. With musical lusciousness and deeply felt images, STILL LIFE WITH JUDAS & LIGHTNING unfolds like a peony, the lives like petals forming a single experience of complex beauty.

"Dawn Diez Wil...