Reviews of The Woman with a Cubed Head
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"Julie Moulds' poems are unflinching, funny, and wise. In her first book, The Woman with a Cubed Head, a pastiche of global revisionist myth-making, she explores the horror and brilliance of transformed bodies, especially those changed by illness. Julie Moulds is a 21st century Gretel––she's been singed by smoke from the witch's oven, then escapes, urgent to tell us all about it."

—Denise Duhamel

"These are attractively human and vigorous poems informed by a wisdom that is striking in one so young. Full of courage and resilient humor, Julie Moulds' poems sometimes have such energy that steam seems to rise from the lines."

––Paul Zimmer

"For years I've looked forward to the publication of these poems, and Julie Moulds' stunning new collection, The Woman with a Cubed Head, is certainly worth waiting for. The poems are compounded of grit, humor, and legend, and you will be drawn again and again to the stories they tell and the voice that tells them."

—Nancy Willard

“Moulds crafts a universe from legends, myths, and fairy tales—Vikings and Valhalla, the Blessed Virgin, Renoir’s women, Chagall’s milk cow, Bugs Bunny, and Star Trek—but always we are aware that a life-and-death struggle is going on: chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants, 'anti-fungal mouth medications,' the indefatigable love of a husband.”

– Vince Gotera, North American Review