Keeping Them Alive
Copyright © 2010
by Christine Stewart-Nuñez
WordTech Communications
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Christine Stewart-Nuñez succeeds in bringing both life and death
into convergence in this marvelously vivid, intimate, and
alive-as-flesh mandala of poems, as she deals with the mixed
emotions connected to the death of her sister and the birth of her
son: anger, fear, curiosity, mystery, joy and sadness. These poems
invite us to participate in a circle dance, framed by earth and
sky, rain and drought, creation and destruction, and they leave us
in the end with a well-earned sense of wholeness and completion of
spirit. — Freya Manfred, author of Swimming With A Hundred
Year Old Snapping Turtle
Christine Stewart-Nuñez puts her poet-ear on the pulse of human
experience and listens hard. These poems are filled with the
sensual, energetic meditations of a woman envelopped in the world
of new mothering as she mourns the loss of her distant sister with
a steady, tender eye. — Dorianne Laux, author of Facts about
the Moon
Christine Stewart-Nuñez’s blue-hued poems in Keeping Them Alive
are a series of ravishments: ravishments of grief, birth, beauty.
The speaker in these poems repeatedly surrenders herself to
blossoming, to an opening into loss, into motherhood, into
presence and attentiveness. Intertwining memories of an older
sister lost tragically within an uneasy family dynamic, with the
voluptuous rapture and terror of a first pregnancy, these poems
confront various forms of rupture and repair in the "full turn" of
organic cycles and processes, as well as the more human creative
acts of braiding and stitching — the poems themselves, in one
sense, functioning on a meta level as a similar cycle of rupture
and repair. The book moves toward increased clarity, like a
Polaroid coming into focus, braiding together gorgeous
convergences of pain and joy in unflinchingly chiseled
language and stunning images. — Lee Ann Roripaugh, author of
On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year
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The Love of Unreal Things
Copyright © 2005
by Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Finishing Line Press
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Poetry flies beyond the facts of history to touch the mystery within. The poems of Christine Stewart-Nuñez clearly have been born of the meeting of her own
spirit with the story of Catherine of Siena. Catherine, I think, would be pleased. — Suzanne Noffke, OP, translator of the works of Catherine of Siena
Christine Stewart-Nuñez's poems about Catherine of Siena are stunning, brave, and original, taking on one of religion and history's most loved yet, to my
mind, least understood figures, bringing her to life on the page, giving her voice and making her human. The poems are full of the sensual delights of body and
as well as the weight of the soul, each poem deftly wrought to reveal a world both real and transcendent. The Love of Unreal Things is a work that will change
your life. — jesse Lee Kercheval, author of Dog Angel
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Postcards on Parchment
Copyright © 2008
by Christine Stewart-Nuñez
ABZ Press
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Product Description
Postcard on Parchment is a evocative and emotional collection of finely crafted poems recounting the experiences of the author as a teacher in Turkey.
It was selected by David Baker as the prize-winning entry in the 2007 ABZ Poetry Contest. — from the pubilsher
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Unbound and Branded
Copyright © 2005
by Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Finishing Line Press
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The iconic image of supermodel Kate Moss is the focal point of Unbound & Branded. — from the publisher
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