The Price of Scarlet (University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose)
by Brianna Noll
A honeycomb long vacated by honeybees still possesses an "echo of the swarm, / a lingering song ." Living things are made and make themselves: "My bones came first. / Like long needles, / they knitted muscle / and tendon / and tissue and skin. / Filled themselves / with marrow." In her debut collection, Brianna Noll fuses the scientific and fantastic, posing probing questions that explore the paradoxes of experience. Interweaving themes of creation, art, and nature, the poet gives voice to anima...
From the foreword: "In Perfect Black, Crystal Wilkinson walks us back down the road she first walked as a girl, wanders us through the trees that lined the road where she grew up, where her sensibilities as a woman and a writer were first laid bare. In one of the first poems that opens the collection she is a woman looking back on her life, on the soil and mountains that first stamped the particular sound of her voice and she is deeply inquisitive about how it all fell into place: "The map of m...
The theme developed in this book is that friendship is a seed to be nurtured to form a precious bloom. The volume combines poems with floral decoration and quotations from renowned writers and historical figures. The volume is arranged into chapters according to flowers such as forget-me-nots, lillies and roses. Each chapter begins with a vignette on the background of the flower, enhanced by a watercolour picture.
Growing Up Crisscrossing the Line (Memoirs of a Beautiful Mind, #1)
by Omar L Rashed