The Gilded Flicker is an interrogation of what it means to live in our time as an activist, Jew, queer spouse, mother, and healer. Its poems perch at the edges and peer into multiple of the medical clinic during COVID, of the forest or park as haven or hell, of the detained or wounded teen, of pregnancy and death. These works are in passionate dialogue with each other and their surroundings, yet they still manage to pause and appreciate beauty and wonder.
I'm biased because this is my friend's book, but I loved it. Her poems made me wish there were more images included in the book, or a website where the reader could go to see what the daguerreotypes she was inspired by really look like. Congrats Julie!