Description
In White Summer, Joelle Biele investigates the problems of personal and cultural memory. Rich with images of flight and displacement, Biele's poems show a love for words, their music and physicality. In lyric addresses, historical meditations, and autobiographical narratives, she takes readers on a journey that includes stops at a dinner party in ancient Rome, a market square in Germany, an Italian feast in the Bronx, and the main concourse of Manhattan's Grand Central Station. She shows a sharp eye for the telling detail whether she is studying the migrations of birds or sketching portraits of people wishing to escape the confines of their lives. Throughout her first collection, Biele reveals and revels in the power of language to shape and create experience.
About the Author
A Fulbright scholar and recipient of both the Ruth Lake Award and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Joelle Biele has been published in the Antioch Review, Hubbub, Indiana Review, the Iowa Review, Meridian, Nimrod, and Epoch. Biele has taught American literature and creative writing at the University of Oldenburg in Germany and has served as a lecturer in the English department at the University of Maryland.
Reviews
White 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
Book Information
ISBN 9780809324682
Author Joelle Biele
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
Weight(grams) 333g
About the Author
A Fulbright scholar and recipient of both the Ruth Lake Award and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Joelle Biele has been published in the Antioch Review, Hubbub, Indiana Review, the Iowa Review, Meridian, Nimrod, and Epoch. Biele has taught American literature and creative writing at the University of Oldenburg in Germany and has served as a lecturer in the English department at the University of Maryland.
Reviews
White 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
Book Information
ISBN 9780809324682
Author Joelle Biele
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
Weight(grams) 333g
