Glimmerglass Girl

"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