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...
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