{"product_id":"shade-of-blue-trees-kelly-cressio-moeller-9781948767149","title":"Shade of Blue Trees","description":"Finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Poetry Book Prize.The poems of Kelly Cressio-Moeller's Shade of Blue Trees offer up an intimate surrealism, earth-born, deeply shaded, and tinted the deep blue of solitude, memory, and myth, turning \"yearning's blue fire\/into a dreamscape fugue.\" Nowhere is Cressio-Moeller's virtuosity more apparent than in the sequence of \"panels.\" These pieces function as lyric poems, language-paintings, fairy tales, and compressed novels, somehow removed from time, with a lushness that reminds me of Flaubert-without the meanness. For instance: \"A wall-eyed jay cracks a cherry's\/skull against the cheekbone of dusk,\" and \"Cornflower satin, heels on parquetry-she orders\/nests for her hair to keep skylarking near, wears the\/clouds on her finger to be swallowed in vapor.\" There are poems that walk the territory of the actual, from mother-loss, which winters the tips of the speaker's hair, to embodiment: \"without my cervix I am no less queen\/open me, see there's nothing left to give.\" Indeed this collection is evidence of a queendom that has been cultivated via solitude, loss, and time. \"For years,\" she writes, \"her poemwork involved dipping arrows\/into tinctures of monkshood. Beneath her shawl of\/suffering, she yearned only for two gifts: to be seen, to be understood.\" With the unveiling of Shade of Blue Trees, those gifts have been delivered. Diane Seuss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelly Cressio-Moeller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948767147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948767149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Sylvias Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d","brand":"Kelly Cressio-Moeller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993837437183,"sku":"9781948767149","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c42a2e2-b1d4-4fa3-8b20-82d7ee4775b6.jpg?v=1683326607","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shade-of-blue-trees-kelly-cressio-moeller-9781948767149","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}