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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Bluewords Greening

Bluewords Greening

Stewart-Nuñez, Christine

Paperback

Women's HealthGeneral ParentingGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0997666617
ISBN13: 9780997666618
Publisher: Terrapin Books
Published: Sep 2 2016
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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-Nuñez'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

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