Julie Babcock
Books
The Wild Out
Novel manuscript out on query. Alternating points of view of three characters from Cleveland, Ohio who are desperate to escape their traumas and leave their hometown in the spring of 2019 to create wild, new realities for themselves.
Babcock defamiliarizes the defamiliarizing effects of living with grief with heartachingly generous lightness and wit. And the impact is rattling--she makes poetry cave-paint and conjure again, bringing back into being both her beloved, and our attention to the vulnerability of our bonds and bodies.
Megan Levad, author of What Have I to Say to You
Welcome to Ohio, populated by horses and astronauts, wolf moons and changelings. In Autoplay, the American Midwest buzzes with mystery, and our guide is a poet of deft lyricism and graceful wit. So let yourself go, dear reader, because, as Julie Babcock writes, 'To dream is to let go,' and these poems--full of heartache, wonder and awe--dream spectacularly.
Matthew Olzmann, author of Mezzanines