Blue Scorpion

Julie Fay's magnificent "Blue Scorpion" seeks out the "dense and promising weather" of experience and reports generously on marriage, motherhood, friendship, and expatriate life. But what makes her poems powerful and unique is the way, regardless of their subject, they are always in touch with the "liquid fire our bodies' goblets contain." This fire does not burn but rather it illuminates all the particularities and passions of our lives with a warm and steady flame.