Hesitation Waltz

by Amie Whittemore

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2025

Reviews

[Susan L. L. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amie Whittemore's HESITATION WALTZ (MWC Press) is absolutely exquisite, the title's sense of entanglement carrying through every poem: the suspicion, the elegance, the sudden leaps as we inhabit a strange world full of intimacies, secrets, dangers, and surprises. Whittemore shows how these elements gather into something lively and reflect our human responses back to us: our memories, vulnerabilities, desires, gratitudes, inherent multiplicities, even our tender complaints. Replete with lush, tactile, and highly specific imagery, these poems also blend the pastoral with the everyday, monarch butterflies, milkweed, cobwebs, and horseshoe crabs appearing alongside garbage bags, contact lenses, retirement plans, and sequined skirts. Whittemore's version of experience is very much a restless, ever-shifting course, one we're invited to both despair over and delight in. 10/10 recommend!

[Esther Windt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love gay people dude