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Blue Flame

Blue Flame

Current price: $15.95
Publication Date: March 15th, 2019
Publisher:
Carnegie Mellon University Press
ISBN:
9780887486487
Pages:
64

Description

Emily Pettit is not afraid to confront the greatest of our universal experiences. Her Blue Flame is about time, space, loss, love, memory, fear, and staying alive. In this exquisite collection, she explores what happens to us in this world in the ways that only poetry can capture.
“Blue Flame is a book about consciousness, about what it means to re-see the world all around us in a world full of ultimate vision. Because when the book tells us, “You are exactly where you are / supposed to be,” we can believe it. Because these are poems that know everything and want to tell us so. Read this book and you will enter a heartbreaking world where beauty never ends, maybe thankfully. . . . In this book, she takes all of the very stuff of being alive and makes it a sound that seems like music but is better than music. Read this book and you will come alive again.”—Dorothea Lasky, author of Thunderbird

About the Author

Emily Pettit is an editor for Factory Hollow Press and jubilat. She has taught and lectured at Columbia University, the University of Massachusetts, and Elms College. Pettit is also the author of Goat in the Snow. She lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts.