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Critical Praise for Hemispheres and Other Poems

• Julia Ridgeway's talent is like the purposeful flight of a mariposa, emerging from her dark cocoon ("I become my other self / my other and I") to taste and feed from the sometimes sweet, too often bitter nectar of the sensory world. The poems in Hemispheres take us on a journey of exploration whose goal the poet reveals from the start: we travel through the darkness in order to understand ". . . that we are the journey."

  — Judith Oritz Cofer, author of The Meaning of Consuelo, et al.

• Here is an astute young voice that blends past and present, the tangible and the intangible, in a quiet reverie that takes us on a journey of light – from the stars into the innocence of an unknown future in the echo of an old photograph, to a tide in the sky from a storm in Africa, and finally, drop by drop, into the depths of a dark pool. And in the process of this journey, we discover that we have been touched by the quiet, thoughtful words of this young poet.

  — Carmen Tafolla, author of Sonnets and Salsa, et al.

Reviews

• Julia Ridgeway's talent is like the purposeful flight of a mariposa, emerging from her dark cocoon ("I become my other self / my other and I") to taste and feed from the sometimes sweet, too often bitter nectar of the sensory world. The poems in Hemispheres take us on a journey of exploration whose goal the poet reveals from the start: we travel through the darkness in order to understand ". . . that we are the journey." -- Judith Ortiz Cofer author of The Meaning of Consuelo, et al.

  Here is an astute young voice that blends past and present, the tangible and the intangible, in a quiet reverie that takes us on a journey of light – from the stars into the innocence of an unknown future in the echo of an old photograph, to a tide in the sky from a storm in Africa, and finally, drop by drop, into the depths of a dark pool. And in the process of this journey, we discover that we have been touched by the quiet, thoughtful words of this young poet. --Carmen Tafolla author of Sonnets and Salsa, et al.