Stanislavski said: “Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.” Roses in The Snow is an absolute testament to that. Each poem and photograph within it resonates authenticity, grace, and depth without pretension or device. The author’s words and images depict strength through vulnerability, silence through voice, light through shadow and pay homage to the strange dance of sadness with beauty.



Roses in the Snow is an exquisite collection of postcards from journeys through the inner and outer universes. I challenge anyone to read “The city is falling in my heart again” and not believe that at some point in some place, it was written for them.



The carefully placed black and white photos make you feel as though you really are sitting at the next table from one of the instants the author has carefully captured and holds still-breathing. “Dove in a Fountain in Cordoba” left me joyously perplexed for a day about what defines captivity and freedom.



Watch out for this book. You can put it down, but it will get up and silently follow you.

This book feels like an intimate present given to the reader by the author herself. Leading you through the seasons on a path of poems and photographs, Szokolyai is a generous, clever and often suprising voice, balancing and mirroring the seasonal structure of the book with the actual words of the poems. She inspires in her response to other works of art; in fact, conversation and perception are themes that flow throughout the book - conversations between herself and her loved ones, to those across centuries, across cultures, the places where only art has the ability to bridge. This is a poet who loves. She loves art, places, things she has experienced. But most of all she loves other people, our contact with each other and our ways of existing, our place in nature.

An amazing book of poetry by a phenomenal poet! I love the positive energy I am feeling while reading each poem! Very uplifting!
Beautiful photographs!


Love
Jules

This is a great book! It delicately intertwines the seasons with some lovely imagery from Boston to Paris to Budapest.

The imagery comes alive when you hear it performed at www.myspace.com/dnorma with Sounds in Bloom!