Another Evening by Judith Skillman

An Artists from Maryland micro-collection

For Judith Skillman, grief is everywhere—grief is as broad as “space-time" and as specific as the "insect with green legs / on its back in gravel." In Another Evening, Skillman confronts the question of what it means to grieve; to not know what comes next; to know everything that comes next; to accept that which hurts the most to accept. In this collection, Skillman outdoes herself over and over again with the fatality of each line, revealing the ultimate hurt that comes with healing.

“Another Evening by Judith Skillman is an examination of insurmountable grief about the speaker’s late mother, describing the death ‘as large as sky woven in between’ (‘Grief Stricken’). The poems are heartfelt and carefully crafted, asking ‘[w]hat is it like to live without a mother?’ (‘Another Evening’).”

—tommy wyatt blake, author of NECROPIA (dogleech books) and DITCHLAPSE / [REALLY AFRAID] (Querencia Press)