{"product_id":"queen-in-blue-9780299326647","title":"Queen in Blue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis gorgeous and wry debut firmly claims physical strength, toughness, and authority for femininity. Ambalila Hemsell's poems speak from a place of empowerment as well as wonder. They address the insatiable fear of motherhood and the violence embedded in natural processes of creation, birth, and survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work of an important new voice. These poems are transcendent and haunting. The breathtaking associative, spiritual, and psychological acrobatics in this poetry are not decorative or experimental or performative. The artistry here is a magician's. She changes us. A reader could ask no more of any collection of poems\"\" - Laura Kasischke, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Hemsell gets it. She has written an incredible debut that anyone who plans to tend to our beloveds or our beloved earth in the coming days simply must read. This is the eco-poetics we need in the world. Don't let the beauty distract you from the call to action.\"\" - Danez Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"At once a splendor of lyricism and a contemplative account of lineage, otherness, and ethnicity. Hemsell's extraordinary verbal deftness precisely locates the still-tender pains and triumphs of being a mother, a daughter, and a lover while still trying to be an individual in the world.\"\" - Airea D. Matthews, author of \u003ci\u003eSimulacra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e joy 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Son  7\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Passport  8\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Spirit Gulch  16\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Animating Principle  18\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e History\/Memory  20\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Alaska  27\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e elegy for lilac  28\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Letter to the Dead  30\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Witness to a chain of bursting  31\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e mourning  33\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e the tooth  34\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Jigsaw  35\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Neighborhood  39\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e the animals  43\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sketching Finches  45\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e winnowed  46\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mule Poetica  48\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Young with Bad Wrists  50\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e And Then  52\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Wanting  54\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Think Global\/Act Local  56\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Somerset  58\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Terra Machina  60\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Unearth  62\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Queen of Hearts  67\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Pardoner  68\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Eleven Ten  70\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Queen in Blue  71\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Libra Season ; 73\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Gardener  74\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Rome  79\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Origin Story  80\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Glossary  82\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Trouble with Sleeping  84\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e For the Light  86\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e yes, but  87\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e poem with a bat in it  89\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Marsh Song  90\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hour of Unbroken Eggs  91\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I'll Be Here  92\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Borrowed or Stolen, Like Children  93\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Prayer  95\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Some years later\/after sex\/you asked  96\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Night Song  97\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cusp  101\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes  103\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments  105\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036937257303,"sku":"9780299326647","price":15.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780299326647.jpg?v=1750933102","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/queen-in-blue-9780299326647","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}