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Something Blue
Ebook
Available on Mar 09, 2027 | 128 Pages
From the award-winning author of Finna comes this moving, tender collection of poems exploring love and grief throughout the journey of life
in this luminous green corner
of a beautiful, bruised continent.
there was love between
these lovers
that still happened
amongst it all.
In Something Blue, Nate Marshall reminds us that “love always happens in a time of grief. That’s how you survive. Poems sit at the intersection & sing for us.” Marshall’s third collection follows in the traditions of the epithalamium (wedding poem) and the elegy (funeral poem), bearing witness to love and grief as essential to how we understand ourselves and our unending relationship with each other.
Life is a duet of great joys and stunning losses, and within this idiosyncratic miracle that we have both the honor and horror of inhabiting, we are often left speechless. During the most important moments to us, the moments that defy words, we reach for the alchemical magic of the poem to make sense of the ineffable. The poems in Something Blue emanate some measure of that magic, proclaiming love, and specifically Black love, as miraculous.
in this luminous green corner
of a beautiful, bruised continent.
there was love between
these lovers
that still happened
amongst it all.
In Something Blue, Nate Marshall reminds us that “love always happens in a time of grief. That’s how you survive. Poems sit at the intersection & sing for us.” Marshall’s third collection follows in the traditions of the epithalamium (wedding poem) and the elegy (funeral poem), bearing witness to love and grief as essential to how we understand ourselves and our unending relationship with each other.
Life is a duet of great joys and stunning losses, and within this idiosyncratic miracle that we have both the honor and horror of inhabiting, we are often left speechless. During the most important moments to us, the moments that defy words, we reach for the alchemical magic of the poem to make sense of the ineffable. The poems in Something Blue emanate some measure of that magic, proclaiming love, and specifically Black love, as miraculous.
Author
Nate Marshall
Nate Marshall is an award-winning author and editor. His most recent book, Finna, was recognized as one of the best books of the year by NPR and The New York Public Library. Finna was awarded the Heartland Booksellers Award and was an All-Pikes Peak Read Selection for the Pikes Peak Library System. Marshall was the recipient of the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation and was inducted into the NewCity Lit50 Hall of Fame. He has read his work internationally, including as a featured writer at the Singapore Writers Festival and Australia’s National Youth Poetry Slam. Marshall holds an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at The University of Wisconsin and lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, the writer Alison C. Rollins, and their very cute daughter.
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