How does Judith Monroe's poetry differ from her contemporaries? A reader has said that her poems last, popping into one's mind unbidden but always welcome, and that her poetry does what the best poetry has always done which is to find the universal in the particular. From the pages of Searching for Jenny Moses, her poetry sings out. The narrative style fits the subjects she writes of, colorful, quirky and touching. She invites, and in some cases, dares the reader to experience tragic loss. The lyrical poems, however, tend to be snapshots of nature's beauty. Monroe has characterized her work...