Julie Babcock
Books
The Wild Out
"Two Horses and an Examination of Time Theory" by Kellie and Natalie North
Recently completed novel ms. with alternating points of view from three very different characters who leave Cleveland, Ohio in the Spring of 2019 and go South, desperate to escape their traumas and create new stories for themselves. Their differing motivations collide and create further problems for them all. To make matters worse, none of them know that they’re all being followed by the same horrible man — and that that man might be the devil.
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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