| fiction non-fiction memoir poetry |
| ISBN 0-9778745-7-5 |
| Poetry 62 pages |
| From the pen of one of Kentucky's most beloved arts activists ... |
| ABOUT THE POET ... Judy Sizemore grew up in the lake country of New Hampshire. After extensive traveling, she and her family settled on the banks of a creek in the hills of Eastern Kentucky because it felt like home. Her poetry, stories, essays and travel articles have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, newspapers and anthologies. As a literary artist with the Kentucky Arts Council, she has shared her love of life and words with thousands of children and adults throughout the Commonwealth. An ardent environmentalist and breast cancer survivor, she writes with transparent candor about her experiences, her family and her feelings. |
| Cover art is a work entitled "Almost Home" by watercolor artist Pat Banks Email the artist: patbanks@ipro.net |
About ASYMMETRY ...
| ASYMMETRY is a collection of poems about real life, about things that really matter. These are poems of healing and honesty and rawness and simple beauty, focusing on the little moments that anyone can relate to, no matter their circumstances. I defy any reader to not be moved by this beautiful collection. This one's going on my ‘favorites’ shelf. -- Silas House |
| Here are poems -- honest and large of spirit -- about forests, creeks, starlight, dogs, breast cancer, family and friends. They are also poems about wonder and, most of all, about love. -- Anne Shelby |
| Judy Sizemore’s poems are delicate, wrenching, exhilarating and dangerous. They begin with straightforward lessons from geography and history, and then guide the reader, step by step, through the Creation and all its wonders to the horrors of mountain top removal. With gentle words and startling images, the poet coaxes us into the deep end. Danger lurks beneath the calm surface, and in the end we are awed by Asymmetry – a dark mountain and the brilliance of a single star; mushrooms sprouting from the fingertips of the dead; a young girl budding into a woman; the woman transformed to a warrior. -- Constance Alexander |
| Sizemore’s poems are centering in the deepest sense because they articulate a human place in the world, a life lived in conscious relation to trees and lakes, mountains and stars, a life of knowing “whose child you are.” Along with family love, the knowing sees the poet through her ordeal with breast cancer. There is hope and healing in these hard-won words. -- George Ella Lyon |
| Judy Sizemore has one of the most powerful yet quietly insistent voices writing today. These pieces come directly from the heart, and the skin, and the breath of a strong woman unafraid of living inside her own nature as well within this fragile, beautiful world. While many know Judy Sizemore as an arts organizer, a community activist and feminist across the state, not many know her as a writer. And they should. This is what good writing and living to one’s depths is all about. -- Normandi Ellis |
photo by Robin Jones
photo by Dennis Sizemore
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| (c) 2012 |
| (excerpt from "Planting Memories") And grown and urbanized woman that you are, you are still my forest nymph and I smile indulgently back at you feeling the bond between us far stronger than the gulf between lifestyles You feel it too as you hand your child into my arms knowing that I will take him into the forest to sing with birds and count tadpoles and bring him home with muddy toes and imprint in his mind forever as I did in yours as my mother did in mine days of forest wonder |
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| a gorgeous collection of poems exploring life's spectrum |
| Several works inspired by poems from Asymmetry, including two paintings by cover artist Pat Banks, were accepted into the "Visions From Voices" exhibition at the Kentucky Museum for Art + Craft in Louisville. Click here to see artworks by three artists who were inspired by Judy's poetry. |
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