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Judith Skillman is the winner of many poetry awards, including the Eric Mathieu King Fund from the Academy of American Poets, and has received grants from the Centrum Foundation, and the Washington State Arts Commission. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Northwest Review, Poetry, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals. Check out Judith Skillman's website, JudithSkillman.com, for news, readings, bibliography, translations & more.

	[C-JS14] Skillman, Judith. Circe's Island. Eugene, OR: Silverfish Review Press, 2003. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 1878851187. 82 pages of poems. This is fine, unread copy. "Judith Skillman sings. She sings of home so as to define it. She sings home back to origins, both Hebrew and Hellenic, that give it warmth and meaning. Her precise, quick-stepping lyrics help us find out own way home, and to face the mystery of never fully knowing it." -- David Hamilton, Editor, The Iowa Review. $12.95
	[C-JS07] Skillman, Judith. Sweetbrier. Yakima, WA: Blue Begonia Press, 2001. First Edition. Wrappers. SIGNED. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0911287442. A chapbook, hand-sewn into glossy illustrated wrappers; this is #144 of 250 signed, numbered copies. Unpaginated; 23 pages of poems. This is a fine, unread copy. In Sweetbrier, the elegy is given new treatment. Aspects of physics and nature come together to prefigure loss and define its role as essential to transformation. The world of poems in this book is populated by summer landscapes that include crabapple, hawthorn, hyacinth, honeysuckle, and cottonwood. $7.50
	[C-JS09] Skillman, Judith. Red Town. Eugene, OR: Silverfish Review Press, 2001. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 1878851160. 82 pages of poems. This is fine, unread copy. "Language shuffles the ground between inner and outer landscapes, yielding poems that hover in a dreamlike present and in the nearness of another, yet more revelatory vision to come." -- Charlene Breedlove, Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association. $12.00
	[C-JS05] Skillman, Judith. Storm. Yakima, WA: Blue Begonia Press, 1998. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0911287264. 81 pages of poems. This is a fine, unread copy. "The apparent normalcy of the world of these poems is a thin ice on which the speaker pauses, scarily, suspended over a turmoil of delusion, cruelty, and materialism, over our deepest personal and cultural terrors, over the tidal surge of history, remaining calms and deeply inquisitive, singing a little." -- John Witte, Editor, Northwest Review. $12.00
	[C-JS04] Skillman, Judith. Beethoven and the Birds. Yakima, WA: Blue Begonia Press, 1996. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0911287191. 92 pages of poems. This is a fine, unread copy. "This fine collection translates the music of chaos into the music of unwavering attention. Filled with historical insight and personal illumination, Beethoven and the Birds is an elegant, complex achievement." -- Linda Bierds. $11.00
	[C-JS01] Skillman, Judith. Worship of the Visible Spectrum. Portland, OR: Breitenbush Books, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. The poet's first volume of poems, Worship of the Visible Spectrum was the 1987 winnter of the King County Arts Commission Book Award. 71 pages, bound in blue cloth with silver lettering. This is a fine, unread copy. "Worship of the Visible Spectrum attaches itself to the minds's eye, leaves afterimages that enlarge the reader's world and living in it memorable." -- Madeline DeFrees. $15.00

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