author, ARTIST, naturalist
Jamie K. Reaser is an award-winning writer, philosopher, and ecologist. In all forms, Jamie’s work explores the inter-relatedness of Nature and human nature. She is tended by the meandering Rockfish River and steadfast Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia.
Plant Songs is a celebration of plants and an exploration of the human-plant bond. It is an honoring of plants as our elders and a recognition that plants feed our humanity. The poems are rooted in natural history and the experiences of the author among the Plant Kingdom - a community that greatly outmasses all other life on Earth. Set out to explore these pages and find your place in the landscape.
“From spring flowers to winter-hard branches, plants do have voice, and they offer up a bouquet of song through Reaser’s rich verse. Jamie’s beautiful botany in “Plant Songs” is like sunlight slanting through newborn leaves, illuminating stem and trunk, feeding the roots of our other-than-human belonging. This book is a seasonal feel trip celebrating beings that grant us life and lives well-lived.” –J. Drew Lanham, author of The Home Place and Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves
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"I believe that people can return from the wintering grounds. Animals will depart the ground of scarcity when abundance becomes available to them elsewhere."
– Jamie K. Reaser, The Wintering Grounds
in Dawn Songs: A Birdwatchers Field Guide to the Poetics of Migration
"In recent memory, I sat on a boulder next to a mountain stream and the waters talked to me. They said that voices are like water, they can change things.”
– Jamie K. Reaser, Water and Stone
in Truth & Beauty: Poems on the Nature of Our Humanity