{"product_id":"inheritance-of-flowers-charise-m-hoge-9781639807291","title":"Inheritance of Flowers","description":"Looking back over family tradition and her own trajectory, Charise Hoge reminds us, and herself, in \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eInheritance of Flowers, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e of the ways that gardens and gardening can draw a line of coherence through lives filled with change and transience. An \"upturned worm, wriggling dirt's desire\" becomes \"a tiny Eden in the making.\" In fresh and original free-verse enlivened by strong formal impulses, Hoge creates a canny music with echoes of Hopkins, Dickinson, and Blake, but entirely her own. These are poems one wants to sit with, taking the time to let them bloom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Nordhaus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Music of Being\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the granddaughter of a florist, poet Charise Hoge is an actual flower child. Yet the natural world of her lineage is one of cultivated beauty, in which Easter corsages are stored in the refrigerator. In her collection\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eInheritance of Flower\u003c\/i\u003es\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Hoge presents the performative and spectacular aesthetic of her youth, perfectly encapsulated by the butterfly table and brightly blooming wallpaper of her 1970s bedroom, leading us to wonder about the rootedness of life built for appearances and what that means for a girl who felt \"superimposed upon the world.\" In these exquisite poems, Hoge leans into her inheritance, learning to put down firm roots and find refuge within the homes she has created. Joy and astonishment are found, even amid pandemic lockdown, even amid the mundane, when she sets aside the artificial map of her to do list and looks to the \"lay of the land \/ below my windows \/ show[ing] a gathering of violets \/ risen from their rhizomes.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn E. Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eDays of Grace and Silence: A Chronicle of COVID's Long Haul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and producer of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe WildStory: A Podcast of Poetry and Plants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charise M. Hoge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639807292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639807291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charise M. Hoge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48436891648255,"sku":"9781639807291","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_32828d70-7952-4a37-abe8-0005bf29d7c6.jpg?v=1777158473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inheritance-of-flowers-charise-m-hoge-9781639807291","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}