The Alchemy of Planes: Amelia Earhart’s Life in Verse by C.L. Nehmer

$19.99

 

Amelia Earhart, known for her aviation firsts, but best known for vanishing on the final leg of her flight around the world, re-emerges in C.L. Nehmer‘s Alchemy of Planes: “Woman. Pioneer. Wife. Enigma.” Nehmer shares Earhart’s adventurous spirit, her “blood-wild,” and catches in brilliant word craft the rising, and sometimes sinking, currents of Amelia’s pursuit of her dreams. Thanks to Nehmer, Amelia Earhart’s “grit and gumption” will become the reasons Earhart is known. Nehmer herself, mark my words, will be known as a poet who deserves our attention.

–Margaret Rozga, author of four books of poetry including Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems, and 2019-2020 Wisconsin Poet Laureate

 

Poetry and Amelia Earhart. What an unusual combination! But this elegant remembrance of Amelia Earhart provides readers with her life in lyrical and lovely language. Through Earhart’s experience, we learn about women’s history in the struggle for equality, in working through relationships, in trying to grow in step with our dreams. Like Earhart herself, this collection will fly the reader to new heights of self-awareness and appreciation for those who came before us.
–Kathie Giorgio, author of If You Tame Me and No Matter Which Way You Look, There Is More To See

 

 

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The Alchemy of Planes: Amelia Earhart’s Life in Verse

by Colleen Nehmer

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-246-7

2020

The legend of an American icon gets real. A collection of Amelia Earhart poems that peels back the layers of mystique one moment at a time to reveal the extraordinary life of the woman behind the legacy.

C.L. Nehmer is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Pedestal Magazine, Southword, Sunlight Press and An Ariel Anthology. Her poems have earned prizes from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, including the Kay Saunders Memorial Emerging Poet Prize. She was a 2019 Best of the Net nominee. She and her husband live in Wisconsin with their three teenagers and two rambunctious hound dogs. Visit her at www.clnehmer.com.

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