Judy Bebelaar is an award-winning Bay Area poet and non-fiction author. Sky Holding Fall is her most recent book of poetry, published by Blue Light Press in 2023.
How do we perceive death with its lingering light spreading memories like morning dew quickly drying in the brightening sun? How do we maintain a balance between the personal, private I, and the public shared we? There is a way that poetry, that poems can be both personal and universal, can be dressed in elegant language while revealing naked pain, courage and integrity. Sky Holding Fall does all of this. Judy Bebelaar has written a book of seeing and connection, of everyday miracles and astronomy, of birdsong and sea, and forests holding mountains, all reaching toward a changing sky. It is a book of the human capacity to face death, to revel in life, and to love and love again.
devorah major
San Francisco’s 3d Poet Laureate, author of Califia’s Daughters
