Where Green Meets Blue by Elizabeth Robin
$14.99
Where Green Meets Blue continues Elizabeth Robin’s lyric inquiry into loss, and the struggle to maintain equilibrium. The title is taken from “Whereafter,” the poem searching a resting place for grief and longing: where green meets blue/ i remember, he loved that view.
In one poem after another, readers spend their days together with the poet. Her language is rhythmical and articulate, her poetry is frank and thorough.
In the aftermath of the catastrophic hurricane Matthew, the poet observes the dismantled pines and tells: i’m left with the stump/lifeless, flat, unmoved. She doesn’t end there, but continues: oversized hands/wise eyes/and a rumbling humor. It is so . . . memorable.
Where Green Meets Blue is a book of surrender, restoration and ultimately of hope.
–Miho Kinnas, MFA (Poetry), City University of Hong Kong, Author of Today, Fish Only (2015), Translator of Equatorial Calm, a haiku anthology (2016)
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Where Green Meets Blue
by Elizabeth Robin
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-487-5
2018
Where Green Meets Blue echoes and honors Elizabeth Robin’s late husband, who loved the lowcountry landscapes, compelled by frequent sunny days to look skyward. “There’s something about where the green meets the blue,” he would say, gazing at tall treetops blending into sky. With that memory, Robin transitioned from grieving what she had lost, to treasuring what she had had, a purposeful choice to travel toward Where Green Meets Blue, the metaphorical places in our lives we choose to move forward and engage in possibility.
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