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Highlights
- A poetic botanical index, Julie Poole's debut collection explores the history and science of, and human interaction with, the natural world.
- About the Author: Julie Poole was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest.
- 104 Pages
- Poetry, Subjects & Themes
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About the Book
"With the loving eye of an amateur botanist, poet Julie Poole has distilled nature to its finest, tender points. Through sections divided by biosphere (rich mesic slope; exotic hay meadow; damp understory), Poole's poetry gives voice to a meditative expression of each plant. Each poem creates an individual cataloged world through which to explore the body, sexuality, strength, and a devout refusal to admit the separation between human and plant. Inspired by the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the poems in this collection create a written index, a harmony of botanical wonder"--Book Synopsis
A poetic botanical index, Julie Poole's debut collection explores the history and science of, and human interaction with, the natural world.Review Quotes
"I loved being held by Bright Specimen's gentle intimacy and delight, its organic shapes and speech. Reading this book feels like entering a sunlit room of clear-voiced women, where 'suddenly it seems possible / no harm will come to anyone.'What could be so fragile and unafraid as an herbarium flower? Only a poet as attuned as Julie Poole could filter the world through such bright souls."--Taisia Kitaiskaia, author ofThe Nightgown and Other Poems
About the Author
Julie Poole was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Her first book of poems, Bright Specimen, was inspired by the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center at The University of Texas at Austin. She has received scholarships and fellowship support from the James A. Michener Center, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and Yaddo. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature. Her poems and essays have appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, CutBank, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her growing collection of found butterflies.