“This book is a manual of hope for caregivers who remain focused on “the Plan” of life, while simultaneously providing an illuminating look through the window of the caregiver experience for the wider world. Fresh, original, and necessary, Silence & Seizure is poetic, gorgeously rendered, and deeply moving. A must-read.”
—Adelle Purdham, author of I Don’t Do Disability And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself
This book highlights the stories of women from premodern history and literature through models of adaptations, retellings, and criticism such as poems, plays, and essays. Reviving these voices from the background widens the appeal and accessibility of scholarship in the humanities.
Creative composing processes draw research through the imagination and experience of the writer. This act can help explore qualities of historical events and literary figures that are still relevant today. The four authors of this book demonstrate these approaches through creative adaptations and responses to Biblical and Classical writings, Greek mythological figures, medieval narratives, powerful historical women, plays by Shakespeare, and works by other early modern English writers. What distinguishes this book from other scholarship on the premodern is its collaborative and interdisciplinary foundation, as well as its emphasis on literary and hybrid genres.
Offering interdisciplinary ways of reading, thinking about, and reconceiving literature and scholarship in a way that invites dialogue and further creative responses, this volume provides humanities teachers with effective pedagogical tools to inspire deeper engagement and understanding in their students.
“With its allusions to alchemy and transmutation, Chrysopoeia deepens and expands its accounts of family relationships and narratives of place. It is sensitive, moving, thoughtful, often simultaneously lyrical and complex—a rewarding read on every level.”
Robert Root, Happenstance and Lineage: Reading the Past to Reach the Present
“Each essay is molded from discrete parts, time snipped and restitched, each sense cut from others and reconnected deftly for new meaning. The essays glow golden under our eyes as the writer conjures meaning from life to life. This book is a triumph – for her and for readers. “
Hilda Raz, Letter From a Place I’ve Never Been: Collected and New Poems.
“These essays reject narrative logic with its blind faith in root causes, self-improvement, and better outcomes. They rely instead on association and analogy, braiding disparate experiences and histories with her own, making not-yet conscious wisdom conscious and beautifully articulated. A wise, consoling, luminous book.”
Debra Monroe, It Takes a Worried Woman
Laced with love, art, confession, and connection, the intricate geometries built into this wise and supple book gradually unfold a vast but fragile terrain. Call it home, call it human, this house of poetry "vibrates with possibility"; from folds of an intimate haptic map spring an archipelago of made-places, drawn out by dual seeking, happily singed with hot sauce, and no longer hiding in plain sight. Never reductive, these pliant poems are seductive, instructive, constructive and regenerative. The book’s fourfold frame builds, page on page, line on line, from free and cozy erotic couplets, through shared journeys, joys and pain, toward the wide-awake-world of home-made epiphanies: epic, comic, tragic, and cosmic. Much to mine - reader, dig in!
— Ted Landrum, Midway Radicals & Architects-Poems
READ A POEM: “ELEMENTAL LESSON”
“In a wrenchingly difficult and confusing situation, Christine Stewart-Nuñez has found the wherewithal to make not only meaning but beauty out of unremitting challenges. Her ally and her weapon: poetry. Bluewords Greeningpresents, preserves, and enacts awe, curiosity, tenderness, sensuality, and an endless loving engagement with the world. These poems bear witness; they also lull, celebrate, interpret, and play. This book is an inspiring achievement.” —Rachel Hadas, author of Questions in the Vestibule
READ A POEM (published in Baltimore Review)
READ A POEM (published in The Missouri Review)
READ A POEM (published in Rogue Agent—scroll to bottom)
“In Untrussed, Christine Stewart-Nunez explores the risk inherent in daring to love. These are not poems that can be sailed out into the night. They will return to boomerang the heart.”—Vivian Shipley, author of The Poet
“Untrussed is dedicated to the poet’s loves, and we meet them on every page of this tight, entertaining, and complex collection. You might even think it liberating—making good on its title with every word.”—Lisa Lewis, author of The Body Double
READ A POEM (syndicated in American Life in Poetry)
READ A POEM (published by Cider Press Review)
READ A POEM (published by Portland Review)
