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.?
