Glass Harvest

by Amie Whittemore

Overview

Amie Whittemore's debut poetry collection, Glass Harvest, focuses on our intimate connection to the natural world and how it shapes us. The book explores the struggle of relationships changing (or ending) and how we come to understand and accept our past. Anyone prone to nostalgia and anyone who celebrates the smallest aspects of our everyday world will love Whittemore's work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938769160
Publisher:	Autumn House Press
Publication date:	09/06/2016
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

AMIE WHITTEMORE is a poet and educator living in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Smartish Pace, North American Review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center fellowship and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Poetry Prize. 

Table of Contents

Aphorisms
DREAM OF THE ARK
Dream of the Ark
The Unknotting
Hayloft
First Visitation
Ten Walls
Blackberry Season
Velleity
The Quarry
Last Visit
Two Widows
Yard Catalog
Second Visitation
Drowning the Marigold
The Clarinet
The Ancestors
PERPETUAL MEADOW
Charlottesville, 7 a.m.
In Oaxaca
The Hope Boat
The Wife Show
Crush
The White Doe
Compass Plant
Perpetual Meadow
Last Waltz
Another Beach Poem
Widow Variations
Dear Mockingbird
624 White Street, Key West
Opposite of Blue
This Empty Bowl
INVENTING A SEASHELL
Spell for the End of Grief
To My Future Granddaughter
Rattlesnake Master
Memory Palace
Autumn Thinking
Inept Koan
Nostalgia Sweepstakes
Shelterbelt
Juneberry
My Elizabeth
Key West Nature Preserve
First Kingdom
Switchgrass
Sundress in Winter
Poem for My Former Niece
Inventing a Seashell
Etymology of Orgasm
Saplings
Pearly Everlasting
Notes
Acknowledgments

What People are Saying About This

Paisley Rekdal

“I find these poems’ attention to the natural world sensually rich, electrifying, and refreshing. It is a beautiful debut.”

Lee Ann Roripaugh

“In stunningly lush and organic lines filled with milkweed, soybeans, and marigold, where heartcall is answered by birdsong, and both land and speaker are palimpsestically haunted by past and future seasons, Amie Whittemore fills her dream ark with vivid catalogues, memories, and visions. In poems that weave together “an entire imaginary alphabet from a single letter” with the intricate architectural skill of a bird’s nest braiding together hair and twigs, these poems ricochet between rivetingly fierce consciousness and pure animal joy in a journey that is as harrowing as it is lustrous.”

Gerry LaFemina

“If I had a checklist for what constituted a top-notch collection of poems, Amie Whittemore’s Glass Harvest would come close to hitting them all. A strong sense of language and a compelling voice? Check. Surprising phrasing, metaphors, and use of imagery? Check. A well-tuned ear? Check. Playfulness? Check. Pathos? Check. Check. Check. In her lines a ‘skirt / thrown across the floor looks like a lake // where a child drowned.’ If poetry transforms the world and heightens our realizations of its joys and terrors, then Whittemore is the real deal, and this collection is her terrific and startling debut.”

Editorial Reviews

“...yes, read this book. Devour it. Its lessons are hard won and necessary, its writing is sharp and inventive, and its big-hearted author deserves your undivided attention.’ https://bloggingthenuminous.com/2016/08/22/what-you-love-will-haunt-you-a-review-of-amie-whittemores-glass-harvest/”—Ruth Awad, Agape Editions

“Amie Whittemore is intentionally vulnerable and unintentionally dazzling. She’s got what it takes, and we want what she has—her storied language; her candor and exquisite grace. I hope she wins every award; and even with this impatient pile of books on my desk, I’ll keep this one, to read again.’ http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/october-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri3http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/october-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri3http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/october-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri3http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/october-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri3”—Grace Cavalieri, Washingon Independent Review of Books

“Amie Whittemore’s Glass Harvest is a stunning first book of poetry by a truly original writer. As a debut collection, Glass Harvest celebrates multiple themes—love and desire as well as nature, gender, the family and the self—with fresh and cutting edge imagery.”—Sonja James, The Journal (WV)

"Whittemore’s is an original voice. She has an eye and an ear for a beautiful turn of phrase. This is an exciting debut collection that holds the reader’s attention with its striking phrasing, taut imagery and lush lines. Its dreamlike evocations, binding together a past, a present and a future and its exploration of our relationship to the natural world reaps its own harvest of plenty. Highly recommended." http://galatearesurrection27.blogspot.com/2016/12/glass-harvest-by-amie-whittemore.html—Neil Leadbeater, Galatea Resurrects

"Whittemore has rolled intellect, eroticism, secrets, and even perversion into another bold statement, leaving us craving more of her secrets in this 'glass harvest.'"
http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/038/review_amie_whittemore_chan.html—Dorothy Chan, Boxcar Poetry Review

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