Blue on a Blue Palette

Lynne Thompsons Blue on a Blue Palette reflects on the condition of womentheir 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 odysseyswhich vary stylistically from abecedarians to free verse to centosreplicate 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.