EasterBlack-owned or founded brands at TargetGroceryClothing, Shoes & AccessoriesBabyHomeFurnitureKitchen & DiningOutdoor Living & GardenToysElectronicsVideo GamesMovies, Music & BooksSports & OutdoorsBeautyPersonal CareHealthPetsHousehold EssentialsArts, Crafts & SewingSchool & Office SuppliesParty SuppliesLuggageGift IdeasGift CardsClearanceTarget New ArrivalsTarget Finds#TargetStyleTop DealsTarget Circle DealsWeekly AdShop Order PickupShop Same Day DeliveryRegistryRedCardTarget CircleFind Stores

Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower - by Alison Hawthorne Deming (Paperback)

Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower - by  Alison Hawthorne Deming (Paperback) - 1 of 1
$17.96 sale price when purchased online
$18.95 list price
Target Online store #3991

About this item

Highlights

  • "A rich catalog of the Anthropocene, including history, research, and initiative.
  • About the Author: Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of six books of poetry and five books of nonfiction, editor of the anthology The Gift of Animals: Poems in Celebration of Animals & The People Who Love Them.
  • 144 Pages
  • Poetry, Women Authors

Description



About the Book



"Poems that explore the natural world"--



Book Synopsis



"A rich catalog of the Anthropocene, including history, research, and initiative."--Ellen Bass, author of In Indigo

Essential poems devoted to the power of language to pull us closer to Nature and each other.

In her sixth poetry collection, award-winning writer Alison Hawthorne Deming extends her exploration of the meanings of nature into the tensions of our political and ecological moment. Whether traveling to a biological field station in the Canadian Maritimes, ruins of the Temple at Delphi, community gardens in Havana, the Sonoran Desert's spring bloom, or eruptions of violence in America, she finds in art healing reciprocities between beauty and devastation.

The title refers to crops that grow on farmland in North Dakota where our subterranean nuclear missiles await deployment in their silos. The image epitomizes the tensions that underlie our ordinary days. And yet in these poems she finds "light having an edge over darkness." Poet and naturalist, celebrant and elegist, Deming's poems pay homage to "every organism's joy to thrive," every poem an act of defiance against human cruelty.



Review Quotes




"Alison Hawthorne Deming's new collection, Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower, is a rich catalog of the Anthropocene, including history, research, and initiative. In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, and Pattiann Rogers--Deming pays extraordinary attention to the natural world. With skillful use of scientific detail, music, place, and the power of naming things, she sounds an alarm and a call to action. Moving deftly from the short lyric to the long narrative to prose: 'each word an act / of defiance against the unspeakable.' Poem after poem reads like a 'little locus of beauty to counter the decay.' This collection is an homage to naturalists and explorers, to environmental consciousness, to curiosity and to service--it is a lyric acknowledgment of the delicate balance of life."
-Ellen Bass, author of In Indigo


"Alison Hawthorne Deming is not a poet for whom environmental writing is merely a subject or an aspect of her brand. For this true poet, nature is nothing less than a beyond-one's-own-life existential presence. As with Merwin, Snyder, and Hillman, I read Deming's complex work both for its powerful engagements with nature and the vivifying inventions of its music. Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower provides us such abundance: vigilance but also awe, documentation alongside discovery, and formal designs that range from quantitative syllabics to the open fields of free verse and prose poetry. In the end Deming's artful strategies are--as in areas as diverse as physics, sociobiology, and grammar--deeply relational. Each 'chatter, dirge, thesis, and psalm' is what it is in vital symbiosis with the rest."
--David Baker, author of Whale Fall





About the Author



Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of six books of poetry and five books of nonfiction, editor of the anthology The Gift of Animals: Poems in Celebration of Animals & The People Who Love Them. Among her awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowships, Stanford's Stegner Fellowship and the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her writing has been widely published, including in the Norton Book of Nature Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and Grand Manan, NB, Canada.


Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .34 Inches (D)
Weight: .5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 144
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Women Authors
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Alison Hawthorne Deming
Language: English
Street Date: March 4, 2025
TCIN: 92671876
UPC: 9781636282305
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-8148
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
If the item details above aren’t accurate or complete, we want to know about it.

Shipping details

Estimated ship dimensions: 0.34 inches length x 6 inches width x 9 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.5 pounds
We regret that this item cannot be shipped to PO Boxes.
This item cannot be shipped to the following locations: American Samoa (see also separate entry under AS), Guam (see also separate entry under GU), Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico (see also separate entry under PR), United States Minor Outlying Islands, Virgin Islands, U.S., APO/FPO

Return details

This item can be returned to any Target store or Target.com.
This item must be returned within 90 days of the date it was purchased in store, shipped, delivered by a Shipt shopper, or made ready for pickup.
See the return policy for complete information.

Related Categories

Get top deals, latest trends, and more.

Privacy policy

Footer

About Us

About TargetCareersNews & BlogTarget BrandsBullseye ShopSustainability & GovernancePress CenterAdvertise with UsInvestorsAffiliates & PartnersSuppliersTargetPlus

Help

Target HelpReturnsTrack OrdersRecallsContact UsFeedbackAccessibilitySecurity & FraudTeam Member Services

Stores

Find a StoreClinicPharmacyTarget OpticalMore In-Store Services

Services

Target Circle™Target Circle™ CardTarget Circle 360™Target AppRegistrySame Day DeliveryOrder PickupDrive UpFree 2-Day ShippingShipping & DeliveryMore Services
PinterestFacebookInstagramXYoutubeTiktokTermsCA Supply ChainPrivacyCA Privacy RightsYour Privacy ChoicesInterest Based AdsHealth Privacy Policy