POET JACQUELINE KUDLER READS FROM HER WORK.....

'Sacred Precinct', poems by Jacqueline Kudler.

Tuesday, Jan 3rd , 2006 7-9 PM (inc open mic)

In poem after graceful poem, Sacred Precinct explores the intimate ties between husband and wife, mother and daughter, parent and children and grandchildren, woman and home and nature and time—all the mysteries of connection that bind us to the sacred precinct of our world. As nuanced and complex as fine wine, the poems in this book speak to our deepest emotions, and embody a burnished wisdom on what it means to be human and to love.

"Lyrical, cadenced, and specific, Jackie Kudler’s beautiful poems move through reminiscences of childhood and adolescence into reflections on maturity. Her effects are sometimes startlingly apt, especially when she skewers the role of women in myth. You’ll enjoy this evocative journey.” —Diana Hehir

“This book is a life in itself. Here, a close self-regard; there, a wider regard of the world—each poem precise, often scalpel sharp, always keen in its music, always wise. Jackie Kudler is not afraid of darkness—of the ‘blue, diffuse regard’ of Hades’ opening hands. But above all, she’s awake: to the implications of that outstretched hand, to a flower ‘detonating . . . discharging its yellow flares’; and in such attention she drives us toward the light. Sacred Precinct is a large book, every poem in it earned.” —Gerald Fleming

Jacqueline Kudler lives in Sausalito, California and teaches classes in memoir writing and literature at the College of Marin in Kentfield. She serves as an advisory director on the board of Marin Poetry Center. Her poems have appeared in numerous reviews, magazines, and anthologies, most recently Birmingham Review, Terminus, Perihelion, Amherst Review., and Runes Her full length poetry collection, Sacred Precinct, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press, San Francisco, in 2003. She has been awarded the Marin Arts Council Board Award this year (2005) for “an exceptional body of work over a period of time,” and her “outstanding commitment to the literary arts.”