Reviews for Face to Face: A Poetry Collection

The average rating for Face to Face: A Poetry Collection based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-02-03 00:00:00 Eric Pomminville An incredibly powerful, tender, moving book of poetry. Julie Cadwallader-Staub does not shy away from the terror (and sometimes tedium) of loss, but re-consecrates it with compassion and hope.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-09 00:00:00 Daniel Cipriani Some lovely poems. A couple of them have been quoted on The Writer's Almanac, which is what drew me to the book. Watching a loved one through illness, death, grief, and thereafter is of course a painful journey and sadly familiar to me. Julie C-S is an earnest and sometimes humorous guide. Her children - and a guinea pig - add a wonderful perspective: Now, after the kids rush off to school, you and I sit on the bed. I hold the guinea pig, since he bites. You fill the syringe. We administer the foul smelling medicine to this black and white repository of our children's love hoping the little fellow will live admitting to each other: if he doesn't, it'll be good practice.