On the Other Side, Blue [Paperback]

Collier Nogues lyrical debut collection, On the Other Side, Blue, shows us a world steeped in loss and rich with the love that survives it. If you think youll cry, love, lets not both of us, not here, Nogues writes as she explores how to endure griefa grief that nestles into the hearts of these poems and refuses to leave. Everything in this collection exists in terms of its relationship to the deceased: No one loves me like your mother, now that my mothers gone. The speaker, too, struggles with her identity in the wake of such grief: Widow //echo//there is no proper name / for the daughter left without a mother.

A brave and beautiful work that navigates the complex emotional landscape of grief

COLLIER NOGUES hails from Austin. Her fellowships include residencies from MacDowell Colony and Ucross. She lives in Long Beach, CA.

The Woman Who Left Late-Stage Progression Hydrangea, Best Blue Flower Kitchen Corridor After I Auctioned Her Teaching Materials Blurred Farm Fort/Da Mississippi Long Weekend Winter White How I Take Care of Her Now The Barn Apartment Anthurium A.W.O.L. The Greyhound Bus Break-Up Funeral Neighbors The Porch Is Open, But It's Cold Out There In My Fathers Fathers Airstream Trailer Judging Ones Own Family Is Like Frozen Letter Portrait of Your Grandmother with Alzheimers The First Year in Wilderness She Leaves Me Again, Four Years Later Mirage (The Stone Rolls Back) Long Weekend II God Spot Moriah The Steamboat Natchez After the Avalanche The Party Ex Nihilo Conversion Train Prayer Chicken-Sitting Supper at the Flying J One Year and Counting Cousin Charles Bad September Mothers Day Salt in the Weather and Freshwater Draining At the Viewing Epithalamion The Afterlife is Where My Mom Hears of My Engagement NOTES