SAINT JULIAN PRESS

THE LONG GRASS

By Lisa Rhoades

Houston, Texas – October 18, 2019 – Press Release:  Saint Julian Press is proud to announce a new book of poetry.  The Long Grass, by author Lisa Rhoades, will be published on February 1, 2020.  “In the bright world” of the twenty-first century, the goddess, Demeter, commutes on the Staten Island Ferry in a sequence plaited through this collection. In a voice at once calm and urgent, The Long Grass counters the losses endemic to our broken lives with the reassuring persistence of the natural world and the enduring promise of human love.
Lisa Rhoades's The Long Grass is the poetry of a feminist woman of faith, whose poetic fire was rekindled after the sudden early death of a close friend. These poems are of a piece with her earlier book, Strange Gravity, yet they represent another vision, another music that is at once calm and urgent, and absolutely breathtaking. Her poetry breathes in the air that is music, even as it sings the question "Why must the damaged world / impinge on this November day?" Her poems are the haunting psalms of our difficult days.
—Aliki Barnstone, Poet Laureate of Missouri
Author of Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak and Dwelling
The Long Grass reveals an urban landscape by way of its fecund gaps....Our guide along the way is Demeter, the protagonist of a sequence plaited throughout this collection, who reminds us of the lively gods we are and all that we cannot be. 
—Martha Serpas
Author of The Dirty Side of the Storm
Lisa Rhoades counters the losses endemic to our broken lives—beset by climate change, childhood abuse, gender stereotype and inequity, death itself—with the reassuring persistence of the natural world and the enduring promise of human love.
—Ron Wallace
Author of For Dear Life
A richness in coming round, in the cycle of the seasons, and the complex orbits of mother and daughter, make The Long Grass a book to read swiftly—perhaps in one sitting—and then to read more closely a second time, with even greater pleasure.
—Victoria Hallerman
Author of The Aerialis
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Publication Date:
​FEBRUARY 1, 2020. 
Paperback: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1732054288
Number of pages: 88
For an advance copy, contact: 
Ron Starbuck or Lisa Rhoades
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