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- ISBN 9781636281483
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2023
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Floriography Child is a book about salvation: what gives people strength in the face of adversity, not just to endure, but to move through and beyond our myriad human sufferings. Through poems, micro-essays, and visual art, Floriography Child addresses fundamental questions about purpose, connection, and resilience. Written in memoir form, this book examines the mother-daughter relationship and its intimacies in the context of a daughter’s developing chronic illness. How to bear another’s suffering—how to find sustenance in a world fraught with uncertainty and pain—is addressed through the language of flowers and the natural world. Ultimately, this book asks us to consider how each of us, whatever our path, is connected.
Lisa C. Krueger, PhD, MFA, is a clinical psychologist. Her poems have appeared in various journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner, and with Red Hen Press. She has published articles on the creative process and parallels between poetry and therapy, as well as interactive journals for girls and women. Recent poems have been included as finalists for the Catamaran Poetry Prize, the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize. She maintains a therapy practice with subspecialties in health psychology, women’s issues, and writing therapy. She lives in Pasadena, CA. Floriography Child is her fifth book of poetry.
