Memory of Blue

Tender, but never over-sentimental, the poems in Memory of Blue explore who we are, who we might be, through the eyes of a new mother—her pregnancy, her first years of motherhood—what gifts she wishes to give her daughter, what she honors and wants to pass on: the astonishments of nature and art, the spiritual presences in the world, her own search and lack of answers. And the poet reaches beyond these to the connections between generations of women, her own mother and grandmother but also mothers through history. I was enchanted by these poems— by their spiritual depth and grace, their wisdom, their hope and praise for life itself. Patricia Fargnoli