Bluewords Greening Contributor(s): Stewart-Nuñez, Christine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0997666617 ISBN-13: 9780997666618 Publisher: Terrapin Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Family & Relationships | Parenting - Motherhood - Health & Fitness | Pregnancy & Childbirth |
Physical Information: 0.24" H x 6" W x 9" (0.35 lbs) 100 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Bluewords Greening is a book about motherhood--love and family and fear and failure and mini-ninjas. We observe a mother's bewildering experiences with her son as the poems detail his diagnosis with a rare form of epilepsy and the "bluewords" that result from his aphasia. The speaker is in deep conversation with the son's frustrated and often surprisingly beautiful lexicon; she's also in conversation with the work of contemporary visual artists and the craft of printmaking and the twelfth-century visionary, St. Hildegard. Stewart-Nu ez's music and skilled syntax and stubborn insistence on the beauty of the world--even as the poems explore the heartbreak of recurrent miscarriage--keep the reader rapt and grateful and illuminated. Bluewords Greening is a marvelous book. |