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In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye.
Julie Bruck explores the accidents and acquaintances of life, its small coincidences and occurrences, its unexpected meetings. With a passionate distance, Bruck blends the outside observer's cool embrace with a desire to know intensely life's eccentric smallnesses, to gentle the beautiful out of the mundane. By turns witty and thoughtful, Bruck's writing is always graceful, always a delight.
"Her book opens up with one of those home-run poems that you just have to stare at as it goes over the bleachers."—The Globe and Mail
"There is a keen intelligence in this collection which drives it beyond the visual to the metaphysical...startling images which lead toward new and fresh insights."—Nathalie Cooke
"Bruck maps the intersection of our exterior and interior worlds with a sharp eye and a kind hand...full of wise and vivid phrases...This is an inviting and elegant first book that should win Julie Bruck many attentive readers."—Marlene Cookshaw
, The Montreal GazetteJulie Bruck is the author of two previous books, both with Brick: The End of Travel (1999), and The Woman Downstairs<.em> (1993). Her recent work has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Walrus, among other publications. A Montreal native, she lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.