Bluewords Greening by Christine Stewartnuez

Bluewords Greening by Christine Stewartnuez

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

Stewart-Nuü¾Œ–˜¼ez, Christine: - Christine Stewart-Nuü¾Œ–˜¼ez, South Dakota's poet laureate (2019-2023), is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Untrussed (University of New Mexico Press, 2016) and Bluewords Greening (Terrapin Books, 2016), winner of the 2018 Whirling Prize. In 2019, the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English named her Author of the Year. As a professor at South Dakota State University, Christine's teaching, creative work, and service have earned accolades, including the Dr. April Brooks Woman of Distinction Award (2020) and the Outstanding Experiential Learning Educator Award (2019). She served on the board of directors for the South Dakota State Poetry Society from 2012-2018 and edited its poetry magazine, Pasque Petals, from 2014-2018. She's the founder of the Women Poets Collective, a regional group focused on advancing their writing through peer critique and support. She lives in Brookings with her husband, Brian T. Rex, a professor of architecture, and her two sons.

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ISBN 13	9780997666618
ISBN 10	0997666617
Title	Bluewords Greening
Author	Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Terrapin Books
Year published	2016-09-02
Number of pages	100
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