"Known for their intricate, strong webs, [Golden Orb] spiders spin silk that’s tougher than the Kevlar used in bullet proof vests. Yet, all the while, their webs shimmer like gold in the light. A lot like Suk’s poems in this gathering of poems that spans four decades. Tough and elegant. Compressed and powerful." —On the Sea Wall 

"Who would have thought that any writer so acutely beset by what Emily Dickinson called 'Heavenly Hurt' could find so many ways to transform lamentation to consolation and leave us 'singing / heedless of the dark taking aim'? The poetry of Julie Suk is at once deceptively spare and metaphorically rich, and the sensual mystery of her perfectly pitched and etched lines is haunting, elemental, and wild." —R.T. Smith

Julie Suk is the author of Lie Down with Me: New and Selected Poems (Autumn House Press, 2011). Suk’s The Dark Takes Aim won The North Carolina Poetry Society’s Brockman-Campbell Book Award. Her previous poetry collections include The Angel of Obsession (1992), winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award and the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award; Heartwood (1991); and The Medicine Woman (1980). She also coedited Bear Crossings: An Anthology of North American Poets (1978) with Anne Newman and Nancy Cooke Stone. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.