Bluewords Greening

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-NuNez'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. --Beth Ann Fennelly, Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother

• | Author: Christine Stewart-Nu±ez
• | Publisher: Terrapin Books
• | Publication Date: Sep 02, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 104 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0997666617
• | ISBN-13: 9780997666618