Glimmerglass Girl

by Holly Lyn Walrath

Overview

Glimmerglass Girl is a collection of poetry and images about womanhood and femininity. This debut collection from author Holly Lyn Walrath explores life, love, marriage, abuse, self-harm, the body, death, and alcoholism through the lens of a woman's heart. It takes readers through a speculative and fantastical world of fairy tales and unicorns where femininity is as powerful and delicate as a glass-winged butterfly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635345452
Publisher:	Finishing Line Press
Publication date:	08/24/2018
Pages:	44
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.11(d)

About the Author

Holly Lyn Walrath's poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. Her chapbook of words and images, Glimmerglass Girl, will be published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master's in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a freelance editor and host of The Weird Circular, an e-newsletter for writers containing submission calls and writing prompts. Find her online at www.hlwalrath.com or on Twitter @HollyLynWalrath.

Table of Contents

Espejitos 1

Self Portrait through an iPhone 2

Peony Red 3

Housewife 4

In Rejoice of Kindred Grief 5

Behind the Glass 6

Two Young Wives 8

Elegy for a Body 10

She Learns How to Disappear 11

Woman 12

Wind-Up Girl 13

Anvil Crawler 14

Morning Song 15

Aerie 16

I Want to be a Grackle, I Want to Caw 17

Two Hundred Fifty-Seven 18

Blue Cadillac 20

The Art of Loneliness 22

Premise of the Heart 24

Heart as Seen through Camera Obscura 25

I am Going to Find the Unicorns 26

I Swallowed the Moon 27

I Think My Taste is Questionable 28

White Matter 30

Editorial Reviews

“Tensile and luminous as a glass-winged butterfly, Glimmerglass Girl chronicles the passions of a woman’s heart and its multifarious musings with a marvelous mix of toughness and tenderness. In a shimmering world at once ‘honey-brimmed and buzzing,’ where ‘blueberry coffee’ and a ‘kissing prayer,’ or a ‘quiet mess of a body of light’ offer diurnal delights, this wildly chimerical gathering of hybridized fairy tales and fabulous meditations on womanhood might carry Emily Dickinson’s admonition of epistolary intimacy, ‘open me carefully.’ Indeed, readers should open Walrath’s slender volume carefully, hold these rare poems up to the sun, then lean in quietly to hear each one sing in flight.”

—Karen An-hwei Lee, author of Phylo of Joy, Ardor, and In Medias Res.

". . . an intersection between ethereal loftiness, humorous speculation, and poignant consideration. . . a collection of poetry and images that encourage readers to be more than they perceive themselves to be."

—VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts

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