Böcker av Christine Stewart-Nunez

In The Poet & The Architect, Christine Stewart-Nunez explores how the disciplines we devote our lives to influence how we view the world and, subsequently, interact with each other. If, as Louis Sullivan says in the book's epigraph, an architect must possess "e;the intuition of a poet,"e; the poet/speaker in this collection must also learn to construct her own body of work "e;using the material / one has."e; That material includes the relationship the poet and the architect build from their pasts and the blended family they create and nurture together. "e;My husband writes shelter,"e; Stewart-Nunez says, "e;I architect spells."e; They are spells she invites us to enter and take shelter in.-Grace Bauer

In his introductory essay to Landscapes with Figures, Robert Root writes, "The nonfiction of place includes literary works in which setting has such a presence in its impact upon characters or events or atmosphere that specific place is inextricable." Many of the essays in Chrysopoeia express the sense of place. As the list of countries and regions traveled to in the writing of these essays demonstrates, being in those spaces is an important part of the narrative and meaning-making. The essays in Chrysopoeia weave time and location to explore the tensions and opportunities of family and place. Readers will learn about calendar-keeping, a lost madonna, prayer trees, sculpture gardens, and enchanted cuisine. Readers will travel to Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, Ireland's Cliff of Moher, Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park, and the American Midwest. And yet each piece is its own crucible of transformation where the narrator thinks through language and place to make meaning from changing relationships: miscarriage, birth, death, union, divorce.

Draws on a number of styles - persona, ekphrastic, lyrical, formal - to create a collection that explores the promises of love and loss. From pleasure to pain to hope of new love, this collection draws readers into the everyday magic of the world.

Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way.