WHITE FOR HARVEST
New & Selected Poems by Jeanie Thompson
Poetry
ISBN 10: 0-913515-48-5
Trade cloth
6" x 9"
$20.00
WHITE FOR HARVEST features new poems alongside selections from Thompson's two earlier collections, Witness and How to Enter the River. Thompson speaks as an American signifier and witness to the sacred yet often disturbing aspects of our world.
These poems chart the joy and pain of children, family, loves lost and found, and the continuing resonance of her native Southern landscape. Sometimes Elegiac in tone, White for Harvest explores theological themes through persona poems and personal narratives.
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Praise for White for HarvestThe title alone gives us a way into Thompson's rich meditations: the groundedness of earth, the ground itself, is what drives the poet to song--sacred song. Earth holds our loved dead, and returns life to us as hollyhock and coreopsis. In that sacred cycle our job. the job this superb poet does for us, is to sing: "the moonbeam coreopsis floated in its ferns/and you began the transformations/each morning breathing the day/opening the earth I will think of you." - Andrew Hudgins One might be tempted to call these poems snapshots, for the way they document and clarify, but Thompson takes us deeper still, giving us the drama inside a landscape, the countries buried in a face. The lens she looks through is empathy. - Lance Larsen Thompson's free verse lyrics move with the measured slowness and urgency of prayer, dwelling among the mysteries of connection and opposition. Her new work gives particular pleasure, its song confronting the often brutal exigencies of history and natural science, its breath "all that is necessary, friend, for speech." - Diann Blakely Thompson's poetry deserves our grateful attention for its fine clarity, resilience, and determination that we, and the larger world, shall not fail. Must not. - Pamela Stewart |
ABOUT JEANIE THOMPSON
JEANIE THOMPSON has published three collections of poetry and three chapbooks, and co-edited a collection of essays by Alabama authors, with Jay Lamar.
She is founding director of The Alabama Writers’ Forum, a statewide literary arts service organization. Thompson also teaches with the graduate poetry faculty in the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program.
Her awards include state arts council literature fellowships in Louisiana and Alabama, and the University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Artist award for her work as a poet and arts educator.
Thompson’s poems, interviews with writers, and essays about art and writing have been published in literary journals and newspapers for more than thirty years.