Julie M Wade

Postage Due (Marie Alexander Poetry Series)

"Postage Due is a dazzling series of necessary utterances. Wade uses the language of Christianity to section her book, fraught with joy and pain, to explore what we owe and to whom. She employs postcards, letters, and literary and pop culture heroines—most notably Oz's Dorothy—to tell and retell of ...

Small Fires: Essays (Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature)

This is a daughter’s story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then turns that precise attention on herself. There are floating tea lights in the bath, coddled blossoms in the garden, and a mother straddling her teenage daughter’s back,...

Six

WhySIX?Because the collection is comprised of six poems.And because the perspective in this collection shifts like a kaleidoscope, each image viewable from six possible angles.And because these poems, like the prevalent hexagons of the natural world—honeycombs, for instance—derive strength from thei...

Catechism: A Love Story

CATECHISM: A LOVE STORY is a gorgeous collection of poetic essays on reading, loving, and, most delightfully, reading love between the lines. Julie Marie Wade's prose refuses tradition and convention, the expected beginnings and endings, preferring instead to investigate the gray unknowns of ritual ...

By Julie Marie Wade Wishbone: a memoir in fractures (Reprint) [Paperback]

Fairy Tale Review, The White Issue

Each issue of "Fairy Tale Review" contains poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that either addresses the abiding influence of fairy tales on contemporary literature and culture or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse. The "FTR" is, according to editor Kate Bernheimer, 'a venue for a...

When I Was Straight (Body Language)

Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Julie Marie Wade's lush post-confessional poems are unabashed in their desire, tentative then bold in their knowledge. They're sparkly talismans to transform and transport us, delicacies with creamy insides to fill us up. WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT is a profound 'before and after' ex...

Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures

Julie Marie Wade writes upon memory with poetic precision. At the center of this memoir is the felix culpa, the fortunate fall, of love. Falling in love slices the knot of her parents’ shame, unmasks the visceral truths of her body. And the reader is reminded yes, this is what love does, this is how...