Hortensia, in winter

Hortensia, in winter transports readers on a powerful journey through the lives of women bound by blood, history, and the weight of silence. Megan Merchant's titular Hortensia, an ancestor from a Mormon lineage, becomes both a ghostly presence and a focal point for poems that ache with longing, reverence, and the desire to break free from patriarchal confines. Each poem pulses with raw emotion and luminous imagery, transforming ordinary moments-radishes in a bowl, birds in flight, the silence of winter-into profound meditations on faith, memory, and inheritance. Merchant's work is steeped in the language of epistles, dialogues across time, and moments of haunting tenderness. With her deft hand, Merchant weaves a rich tapestry of personal and collective histories, inviting us to linger in the quiet spaces between loss and discovery. Hortensia, in Winter is a breathtaking exploration of what it means to seek and find oneself in the voices of those who came before.

Author: Megan Merchant
Publisher: New American Press
Published: 10/01/2024
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.17d
ISBN: 9781941561331

About the Author
Merchant, Megan: - MEGAN MERCHANT is the owner of the editing, manuscript consultation, and mentoring business Shiversong (www.shiversong.com) and holds an M.F.A. degree in International Creative Writing from UNLV. She is a visual artist and the author of three full-length poetry collections with Glass Lyre Press: Gravel Ghosts (2016), The Dark's Humming (2015 Lyrebird Award), Grief Flowers (2018), four chapbooks, and a children's book, These Words I Shaped for You (Penguin Random House). Her book, Before the Fevered Snow, was released in April 2020 with Stillhouse Press (NYT New & Noteworthy). She was awarded the 2016-2017 COG Literary Award, judged by Juan Felipe Herrera, the 2018 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, second place in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Inaugural Michelle Boisseau Prize, and, most recently, the New American Poetry Prize. She is the Editor of Pirene's Fountain. You can find her poetry and artwork at meganmerchant.wix.com.