"It seems laughably inadequate to call Julia Fehrenbacher's On the Other Side of Fear a collection of poetry. It is that, of course-graceful, lyrical, wise poems about life, love, doubt, faith and the sweet, simple anatomy of a moment. But it's more than that. On the Other Side of Fear is an invitation to shed the weight of your past, get naked and real and 'wide-eyed awake to the undeniable poetry of it all.'

"Reading Julia is like waking up to find your dream is still there, all around you, unabashedly grand and utterly obtainable. Her poems resonate with a precise,...