Description
Book SynopsisA collection of poetry investigating the problems of personal and cultural memory. Offering images of flight and displacement, Joelle Biele takes readers on a journey that includes stops at a dinner party in Ancient Rome, a market square in Germany, and Manhattan's Grand Central Station.
Trade ReviewWhite Summer, the first collection from poet Joelle Biele, is a book full of gorgeous language, delicate yet enduring imagery, and a quiet lyric intensity that is far too rare in contemporary poetry. No life detail-a fly, a group of starlings, a festival of dolls-escapes Biele's notice, and we are better for having seen the world through her eyes. Biele's poems, which range from short lyrics to longer meditations, are startling in their clarity, precise in their diction, and deft in their craft. There's a fiercely active imagination on display in White Summer, and a reader cannot help but surrender to these portraits of abundance and beauty. This book is alive in the world, not just merely of it. - Allison Joseph, author of in Every Seam and Soul Train ""In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and nature's creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron, cicada, spider, cataipa tree, mockingbird, snail, cormorant, and others. These pitch-perfect poems are written with a delicate, meticulous attention to craft and music. Like the joy she takes in her subjects, this collection is a joy to read."" - Elizabeth Spires, author of Worldling
