Bluewords Greening by Christine Stewart-Nunez

Bluewords Greening is a book about motherhood - love and family and fear and failure and mini ninjas. We observe a mother's bewildering experience 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 beautify lexicon; she's also in conversation with the work of contemporary visual arts 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 ad grateful and illuminated.

Paperback
83 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9976666-1-8

About the author:

Image description: Christine Stewart-Nunez is the author of three previous books of poetry, Untrussed, Keeping Them Alive, and Postcard on Parchment as well as several chapbooks. Her literary work and book reviews have appeared in a variety of magazines, including Prairie Schooner, Calyx, Shenandoah, Arts & Letters, and North American Review. "An Archeology of Secrets" was a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2012 and "Disordered" won the 2014 Lyric Essay Contest at the Lindenwood Review. She is a professor in the English Department at South Dakota State University and lives in Brookings, South Dakota, with her husband, architecture professor Brian T. Rex, and her two sons, Holden and Xavier.

Image description: The cover displays a grid of square panels, each capturing painted blue flowers. The background is white, and the title and author's name are printed in between two rows of the square panels.