Art and Poetry

<p>In <strong>Art and Poetry: Sight and Insight </strong>Judith Coxe gathered an intensely personal collection of poems: vignettes painted in words and pictures spanning her lifetime as artist poet performer scholar and teacher wife and mother. </p><p>From childhood she was engaged in the arts painting theatre and poetry; always seeking <em>a startling cuckoo of a poem</em> and always crafting her work with the sensibilities of an artist making sense of her life.</p><p>Between these pages as in her life art and poetry are inseparable. She shares her life her loves her discoveries - artworks and artists singers authors beloved places and people - and how they made her <em>feel</em>.</p><p>46 poems in four sections: <em>Dramatic Monologues Through an Artist's Eye Sight and Insight</em> and <em>Gathering Rosebuds</em>; each one will bring you closer to the world of Judith Coxe artist and poet. </p><p>With <em>First Light</em> the reader joins her in one of her earliest memories as a four-year-old in a row boat with her father plunging into clear waters - and much later immersed in sadness at his bedside in <em>Goodbye</em>.</p><p>Whether pondering <em>Pelicans</em> or <em>Terns</em> looking for<em> Blue on the Brush</em> wandering the desert of <em>Sedona Arizona</em> or the beaches of <em>Virgin Gorda or Vancouver Island (</em>her favorite vacation spots) she takes us along in quiet moments of contemplation of the sweep of tide sand sun-and time.</p><p>Her final line <em>We'll leave them all to lust in Peace.</em></p>