Description
With the loving eye of an amateur botanist, poet Julie Poole has distilled nature to its finest, tender points. Through poems spread delicately across the page, interspersed with images of the pressed flowers themselves, Poole's poetry gives voice to a meditative expression of flora. Each poem creates an individual cataloged world through which to explore the body, sexuality, strength, and a devout refusal to admit the separation between humans and nature. Inspired by the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the largest herbaria in the Southwestern United States, Bright Specimen weaves together a written index through the harmony of botanical wonder.
Tour planned for Texas and US bookstores, literary festivals; starting with Malvern Books in Austin, TX Strong promotion in Poole's home state of Texas, at University of Texas - Austin, and through the Michener Center Serial rights targeting Texas Monthly, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Ecotone, and others Print and digital publicity targeting The Rumpus, Poets & Writers, American Poets, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Rain Taxi, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LARB Blog, Full Stop, The White Review, and others Promotion at or events pitched for Texas Book Festival, Wordplay, Brooklyn Book Festival, Dodge Poetry Festival, ALA, Winter Institute, and AWP Review copies will be sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); and publisher's e-newsletter
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.
Reviews
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9781646050574
Author Julie Poole
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
Tour planned for Texas and US bookstores, literary festivals; starting with Malvern Books in Austin, TX Strong promotion in Poole's home state of Texas, at University of Texas - Austin, and through the Michener Center Serial rights targeting Texas Monthly, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Ecotone, and others Print and digital publicity targeting The Rumpus, Poets & Writers, American Poets, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Rain Taxi, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LARB Blog, Full Stop, The White Review, and others Promotion at or events pitched for Texas Book Festival, Wordplay, Brooklyn Book Festival, Dodge Poetry Festival, ALA, Winter Institute, and AWP Review copies will be sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); and publisher's e-newsletter
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.
Reviews
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9781646050574
Author Julie Poole
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
