Nest of Matches

Amie Whittemore (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

88 Seiten

2024
Autumn House Press (Verlag)
978-1-63768-089-6 (ISBN)

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Poems that bask in the beauty of nature, queerness, and love while exploring how dichotomies form identity.

Amie Whittemore’s Nest of Matches is a lavish declaration of the beauty of the natural world, queer identity, and of the imagination set free. Whittemore’s third collection explores the complexities of love—romantic, familial, and love for place—and wonders at cycles of life, finding that: “Every habit / even love—strangest / of them all—offers exhaustion / and renewal.” Moving seamlessly from meditations on the moon’s phases to explorations of dream spaces to searches for meaning through patterns of love and loss, Whittemore’s work embodies the mysteries of dichotomies—grief and joy, consciousness and unconsciousness, habit and spontaneity—and how they coexist to create our identities. Throughout the collection, Whittemore reveals how interior nature manifests into exterior habits and how physical landscapes shape the psyche.

Amie Whittemore is the author of Glass Harvest and Star Tent. She was the Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, and her poems and prose have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, Smartish Pace, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University and directs MTSU Write, a from-home creative writing mentorship program.

Thunder Moon
Nocturne
Tornado Song
First Dream
Moon When All Things Ripen
The Turtle
Solstice Swim
Blue Moon
The Dream Therapist
Another Queer Pastoral that isn’t a Time Machine
Another Queer Love Poem that Fails to Change Anything
Harvest Moon
The Crows
If No One Opens Us, We’ll Thirst
Future Elegy for my Grandmother
Hunter’s Moon
Self-Portrait on the Cusp
The Squid
Pandemic Pastoral
Beaver Moon
Another Queer Love Poem that Fails to Change Anything
Butterfly Bandage
Cold Moon
The Required Fire
The Tunnel
Wolf Moon
The Snow Owl
The Problem of Being Good
The Dream Yard
Worm Sap Moon
The Otter
The Journey
Libra Questionnaire
Hunger Moon
Self-Portrait on the Cusp
Battered & Shiny
Wind Poppy, Fire Poppy
Pink Moon
On the Banks of Sinking Creek
Dove Questionnaire
Another Queer Pastoral that Fails to Address White Supremacy
Flower Moon
Another Midlife Morning
The Peony
Last Dream
Strawberry Moon
The Bear
Aubade
Self-Portrait as Another Spring

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2024
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	172 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-63768-089-9 / 1637680899
ISBN-13	978-1-63768-089-6 / 9781637680896
Zustand	Neuware