Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
NEWS: Christine Stewart-Nunez named Poet Laureate of South Dakota
Christine's book Bluewords Greening has been awarded the 2018 Whirling Prize from Etchings Press. Congratulations!
We are thrilled to announce that the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English has named Christine Author of the Year (2018). Congratulations!
Congratulations to Christine for the feature of her Bluewords Greening poem Verge at Verse Daily on November 10.
Congratulations to Christine for being the Featured Poet at the Missouri Review. The feature includes her poem Viriditas from Bluewords Greening.
Congratulations to Christine who has received the F.O. Butler Award for Excellence in Research/Creative Activity at South Dakota State University.
We are thrilled to announce that the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English has named Christine Author of the Year (2018). Congratulations!
Congratulations to Christine for the feature of her Bluewords Greening poem Verge at Verse Daily on November 10.
Congratulations to Christine for being the Featured Poet at the Missouri Review. The feature includes her poem Viriditas from Bluewords Greening.
Congratulations to Christine who has received the F.O. Butler Award for Excellence in Research/Creative Activity at South Dakota State University.
Praise for 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-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, Poet Laureate of Mississippi
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, Poet Laureate of Mississippi
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Christine Stewart-Nuñez is the author of Snow, Salt, Honey (2012); Keeping Them Alive (2011); Postcard on Parchment (2008); Unbound & Branded (2006); and The Love of Unreal Things (2005). Her piece “An Archeology of Secrets” was a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2012. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Arts & Letters, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah. She is an Associate Professor in the English Department at South Dakota State University. www.christinestewartnunez.com
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