Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach's The Bear Who Ate the Stars, winner of the 2014 Split Lip Uppercut Chapbook Awards, is a collection of poems that bite like sharpened nails and enlighten with historical, spiritual and political accounts. In the words of poet Michael Meyerhofer (Blue Collar Eulogies, Damnatio Memoriae), "There's a wonderful range to Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach's poems, rendered all the more remarkable by their consistent depth and polish. These poems feel meticulously crafted, despite a certain primal, sometimes sensual quality often falsely seen as antithetical to intellectual poetry. These poems smell of stars and campfires, a deeper sense of story, a mythological thread running, river-like, all the way back to the dawn of time."

The Bear Who Ate the Stars

Literature & Fiction

Dasbach, Julia Kolchinsky

Poetry

Split/Lip Press

Winner of the 2018 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Ellen Bass, Judge “A compelling book about origins―of ancestry, memory, and language”―Ellen Bass The Many Names for Mother is an exploration of intergenerational motherhood; its poems reach toward the future even as they reflect on the past. This evocative collection hovers around history, trauma, and absence―from ancestral histories of anti-Semitic discrimination in the former Soviet Union to the poet’s travels, while pregnant with her son, to death camp sites in Poland. As a descendant of Holocaust survivors, Dasbach ponders how the weight of her Jewish-refugee immigrant experience comes to influence her raising of a first-generation, bilingual, and multiethnic American child. A series of poems titled “Other women don’t tell you” becomes a refrain throughout the book, echoing the unspoken or taboo aspects of motherhood, from pregnancy to the postpartum body. The Many Names for Mother emphasizes that there is no single narrative of motherhood, no finite image of her body or its transformation, and no unified name for any of this experience. The collection is a reminder of the mothers we all come from, urging us to remember both our named and unnamed pasts.

The Many Names for Mother (Wick First Book)

The Kent State University Press

Winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2019. Rich in detail, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach?s Don?t Touch the Bones is a compelling collection that examines the pain of the world?s, a nation?s, and a family?s history.

Don't Touch the Bones

Lost Horse Press

40 WEEKS, the newest collection from Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, navigates the world through a poet-mother's sensibilities. She captures stories and lyric moments around and within the speaker's body, made more urgent by the caught voices and presence of her older child. The poems embrace the bare and grotesque nature of pregnancy and childbirth as they consider how to mother a neurodivergent child while pregnant with another, rejecting a culture that views the body with shame. The collection asks how to care for one's own body while caring for so many other bodies and how to connect the identities of mother and writer so one strengthens the other.

40 Weeks

YesYes Books

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The Bear Who Ate the Stars

The Many Names for Mother (Wick First Book)

Don't Touch the Bones

40 Weeks