{"product_id":"shade-of-blue-trees","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","brand":"Kelly Cressio-Moeller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44102590857258,"sku":"9781948767149","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/shade-of-blue-trees-6464138.jpg?v=1771573771","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/shade-of-blue-trees","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}