Using newspaper accounts and court records from the late 19th and early 20th century, poet Joelle Biele follows three women who left their homes and families to start new lives or to find work. In the
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.
A rare glimpse at the artistic development of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated poetsI sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc
