Blue on a Blue Palette

Author: Thompson, Lynne

Poetry by individual poets

Published on 30 May 2024 by BOA Editions, Limited in the United States.

Paperback / softback | 122 pages, Illustrations
227 x 177 x 11 | 238g

Lynne Thompson’s Blue on a Blue Palette reflects on the condition of women—their joys despite their histories, and their insistence on survival as issues of race, culture, pandemic, and climate threaten their livelihoods. The documentation of these personal odysseys—which vary stylistically from abecedarians to free verse to centos—replicate the many ways women travel through the stages of their lives, all negotiated on a palette encompassing various shades of blue. These poems demand your attention, your voice: “Say history. Claim. Say wild.”