Bøger udgivet af Green Writers Press

Red Kite, Blue Sky, the debut poetry collection from Madeleine May Kunin, celebrates life and the natural world, occasioned by the birth of grand-children, the memories of friendship and past birthdays/Bar Mitzvahs, a gift of plum-colored gloves from the poet's daughter, the Sicilian sun which "melts my argument against myself," with sharp observations and humor. Like Emily Dickinson before her, Kunin does not shy away from death; rather she embraces the anticipation "before death drags me deep," the gap in her life when her beloved husband dies, the fear of immigration to America during World War II with "an H for Hebrew, I found out later," and the sadness of being isolated as an older woman living alone during the pandemic. For years Kunin was caught in the tempo of politics--as governor, as a federal official, and as an ambassador--but as she eased into retirement from public life, she found a door that opened for her to explore the multi-layered language of poetry.

A poetic biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), Rare Wondrous Things investigates the history of this German artist and naturalist who made groundbreaking discoveries in entomology. While Merian led an exceptional life--even traveling to Suriname at fifty-two years old in the pursuit of knowledge--her name has largely remained in obscurity, and her personal life is still shrouded in mystery. These poems recover her legacy by exploring the tensions between science and religion, professional aspirations and motherhood, wifehood and independence, and biographer and subject.

It's been one year since hot-shot attorney Justin McGee, Boston's most deadly and elusive assassin-for-hire, took on the highest stakes assignment of his career. Killing an assistant district attorney is broad daylight is risky enough, but this assignment carried an especially risky wildcard. Justin finds himself on the lam living in hiding on a fishing yacht in Jekyll Island, Georgia. There he dwells among his dock-mates who consist of drug dealers, smugglers, prostitutes and even an illegal undertaker. The rug is pulled out from under his entire world when the woman that he believed he loved and subsequently murdered for money, shows up alive in order to exact a unique type of revenge. In an unorthodox way, the two lovers recommence their torrid affair and engage in a risky, yet lucrative counterfeiting trade operation. Suddenly, the arrival of an eleven year-old ragamuffin with holes in her clothes and blood on her hands, only further complicates matters. Each of the players at the table eventually find themselves caught in the crossfire of a terrorist plot the likes of which the world has only envisioned in its worst nightmares...