Days of Blue and Flame

By Sarah Yerkes

Poetry. DAYS OF BLUE AND FLAME by 101-year-old Sarah Yerkes investigates subjects closest to the author's heart--childhood, family, travel, aging, art. After a career as a sculptor and a landscape architect, Yerkes began writing poetry at age 97. "I never fully understood how satisfying it could be to shape, build and form a piece with words rather than with wood, aluminum, stone and iron pipe," she said. A hard-working artist, Yerkes strives to write sometimes difficult poems with courage. Poet David Keplinger, winner of the 2019 UNT Rilke Award, said, "Yerkes sews a pre-nuclear America to the computer age, and she leaves space enough for our own pages, and our children's pages, all the stories yet to come."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996972692
• ISBN13: 9780996972697
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Passager Books
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"