Stronger Than Cleopatra

In Jacqueline Jules’ poetry collection, Stronger Than Cleopatra, the reader accompanies Jules on a heart-wrenching journey of devastating loss to come out on the other side, embracing a new life, one changed forever.

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Praise for Stronger Than Cleopatra

We had just begun to publish the first of Jacqueline Jules’ many beloved children’s books, when my husband died suddenly of an aneurysm. Jacqueline generously shared some of the poems she had written when her own husband died. They were beautiful and comforting. Moreover, they offered insight into the complexities of mourning and renewal that one would not expect from so new a writer and so young a wife and mother. As I have reread them over the last years, I find new courage and new comfort. How wonderful that this collection will now be available to so many others.

—Judye Groner, Founder, Kar-Ben Publishing

Jules’ gift is in finding the small moments—green paisley pajamas, carrot cake, the giggle of a nine-year-old boy—and gracefully elevating them to tell the story of a life. Not much has been written for those of us who lost a spouse before 40—and nothing at all with the exquisite power of Jules’ newly planted marigolds. If half of all marriages end in widowhood, Stronger Than Cleopatra is a manual for how to go on.

—Pamela Ehrenberg, author of Ethan, Suspended and Tillmon County Fire

Jacqueline Jules’ visceral howl at the power of the seemingly random universe and passage through the five stages of grief will rattle your emotions and capture your heart. Here is a collection of poems as fragments of light amid the darkness. That she captures that light to share with us is the true marvel.

—Richard Peabody, editor Gargoyle Magazine

A story so poignant and passionate that it only makes sense to tell it in the dramatic heart wrenching sputters that are these pomegranate poems. Don’t think of it as a poetry collection —this is a memoir, where the rawness of the situation can only exude in these small perfect bits of lyric. A journey you’ll want to consume and then consume again. Magical.

—Hildie S. Block author of “People” and editor of the anthology Not What I Expected

About the Author

Jacqueline Jules has had poems in over 100 publications including Hospital Drive, YARN, Christian Science Monitor, Imitation Fruit, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Calyx, Little Patuxent Review, Inkwell, Potomac Review, Third Wednesday, Connecticut River Review, Cicada, The Poetry Friday Anthologies, and Pirene’s Fountain. She is the recipient of the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Poetry, Best Original Poetry from the Catholic Press Association, Spirit First Poetry Contest, and a two-time winner of the Arlington Arts Moving Words Competition. To read some of her work online, please visit the poetry page of her website.

Her poetry memoir, Stronger Than Cleopatra, was released by ELJ Publications in July 2014. In Stronger Than Cleopatra, Jules addresses the unfinished business between the living and the dead as she tells the story of a young widow determined to move beyond an unexpected trauma.

To read an article about the release of Stronger Than Cleopatra in the Arlington Connection, please visit here.

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