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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Terrapin Books
Published: 09/02/2016
ISBN: 9780997666618
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d