Bottle Tree [Paperback]

Jennifer Horne (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: WordTech Communications (February 25, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934999865
• ISBN-13: 978-1934999868
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,981,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jennifer Horne grew up in Arkansas and has lived in Alabama for many years. She was educated at Hendrix College and the University of Alabama. Her books are Bottle Tree: Poems (WordTech, 2010), Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets (NewSouth Books, 2003) and, with Wendy Reed, All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality (University of Alabama Press, 2006). A second volume of essays on southern women and spirituality will be out in 2011. She was awarded a Seaside Institute "Escape to Create" fellowship in 1997 and an Alabama State Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship in 2008. Jennifer Horne has worked as a teacher in college, high school, elementary school, international, and prison classrooms, and as a journal, magazine, and book editor.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bottle Tree Is In Full Bloom, July 26, 2010

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John Lee "John Lee" (Mentone, AL and McKinney, Tx) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bottle Tree (Paperback)

I read Jennifer Horne's latest collection of poems in one extremely, satisfying sitting. If you read much poetry you know how hard it is to find a book where every poem is either good or great. Horne has produced just such a book.

Bottle Tree is full of the body, breath, beauty, and nature. It has the flavor of the old and new South written in smooth, sultry language that any reader will readily relate to. It is never ponderous or pretentious as so much modern poetry tries to be.

Horne's poetry is more in the vein of Mary Oliver, William Stafford or Robert Bly. If you like them you will love her. If you don't like them you will still love her because her voice is as unique as the way she divides her book into Bottles instead of chapters. It made me-a writer of prose-want to write poetry and re-read her book again and again so maybe I could learn how to do it. And isn't that one of the best things you can say about a writer?

John Lee, author of The Flying Boy and When The Buddha Met Bubba.