Books
Lifting Child from the Ground, Turning Around
Glass Lyre Press
Publication Date: February 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9916673-3-3
Retail Price: $16.00
Haunted by the ghosts of Eadweard and Flora Muybridge and framed by the inescapable cage of family, Virginia Bell’s formally adventurous Lifting Child from the Ground, Turning Around is a captivating work of poetic imagination, capturing in words what even a camera typically can’t.
~ Kathleen Rooney, Where Are the Snows
From the Belly
Sibling Rivalry Press
Publication Date: September 18, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-937420-23-9
Retail Price: $14.95; 68 Pages
In From the Belly, Virginia Bell opens the doors to a gallery of poetic meditations – on the tenderness of childhood and motherhood, the primal pleasures of food and sex, and the joyful aches of family and memory. The poems are by turns ekphrastic and self-consciously confessional, taking inspiration from the art of everyday things.
“Virginia Bell’s from the belly is pure pleasure and expertise. Poetry about all home matters secret, scary, and sweet. The body and its generations, our food and art. Poems both comfortable and ominous folded in fine linen but spotted with blood. The book, like a series of intimate paintings and photographs, is perfectly stilled. Bell is never hurried, and the reader is aware throughout of her technical skill, love, common sense, vision and magnificence.”
~ Chris Green, Epiphany School