Poems that address interpersonal connections while navigating life and care amid disease and disaster. &nbsp; Collaboration runs through the heart of this collection. Human relationships--particularly in families--shape the poems in Blue in Green, as they consider how the question of what we expect from one another evolves into a question of what we owe. When cancer overshadows the ordinary--engrossing the labor of love, work, and friendship--disease becomes a collaborator and proposes new rules of exchange.&nbsp; &nbsp; The forms of Elliott's works highlight reciprocity. Here you'll find ekphrastic poems that describe modern jazz songs, letters and letter fragments, and free verse poems in wildly variable line lengths. "When I was a wave," the speaker repeats, each time telling a different story about intimacy and risk. Blue in Green moves through the struggle of processing the damaging interpersonal reverberations of racism, sexism, and environmental damage, while navigating intertwined personal and political incarnations of care. While a slow-growing disease burns its way through the speaker's body, these poems reveal the feeling of perpetually existing in the shadow of catastrophe and document the slow and strange process of coming to terms with that way of living. &nbsp;

Blue in Green (Phoenix Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Elliott, Chiyuma

Poetry

University of Chicago Press

Poetry. VIGIL is an ode to creating--to following a path from a dimly-lit home through a quiet wood, to the banks of a watercourse and back again. This collection, Chiyuma Elliott's second, is set across a range of physical and formal landscapes that are visited by charming spirits, Ambition, Love, Ghost, and Bird. In the company of these guides, VIGIL contemplates life, loss, and what sustains us. These poems are devotions to the kinds of vigils each of us has known: telling stories about the stars, planting a garden, and awaiting a lover's late-night return home. Introspective while eschewing isolation, VIGIL untangles the complexities of love, loss, and healing.

Vigil

Unicorn Press (NC)

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Blue in Green (Phoenix Poets)

Vigil