Kingdom of Glass & Seed (Paperback or Softback)

"And there it is: beneath the title's light-fingered surreality (the book's signature tone), scenes of hardscrabble tenderness and sometimes unbearable cruelty, scavenged and placed ever so carefully side by side in memory's reliquary. And so it goes, too, in line after stunning line. What did Rilke write? Every angel is terrifying. A truth Jacob seems to know in her bones and one, reading these poems, we feel in ours."--Daniel Lawless, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Plume: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry

Jules Jacob is the author of The Glass Sponge, a semi-finalist in TheNew Women's Voices Series (Finishing Line Press), and co-authorwith Sonja Johanson of the illustrated chapbook, Rappaccini's Garden(White Stag Publishing, December 2023). Her poems are featuredin journals and anthologies including Plume, Rust + Moth, LilyPoetry Review, The Westchester Review, Mid/South Sonnets, MER, and elsewhere. Jules is an Emeritus Master Gardener, recipient of afellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Auvillar, France, and former Court Appointed Special Advocate for the Thirty-first Circuit Court of Missouri.

Eileen Cleary is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books. She holds MFA's in poetry from Solstice and Lesley University. She published recent work in The Sugar House Review, JAMA, West Texas Literary Review Solstice: A Magazine for Diverse Voices, and The American Journal of Poetry, among others. Her full-length poetry collections include Child Ward of the Commonwealth, (Main Street Rag, 2019) and 2 A. M. with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2021.)