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In The Poet & The Architect, Christine Stewart-Nuñez explores how the disciplines we devote our lives to influence how we view the world and, subsequently, interact with each other. If, as Louis Sullivan says in the book's epigraph, an architect must possess ""the intuition of a poet,"" the poet/speaker in this collection must also learn to construct her own body of work ""using the material / one has."" That material includes the relationship the poet and the architect build from their pasts and the blended family they create and nurture together. ""My husband writes shelter,"" Stewart-Nuñez says, ""I architect spells."" They are spells she invites us to enter and take shelter in. -Grace Bauer

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"With The Poet & The Architect, Christine Stewart-Nu�ez explores the architecture of self within the context of love. In a series of rings, we are given an ever-expanding ""architecture, / geometry a welcome language, / a new alphabet for / prayer and song."" It's a book designed to be read cover to cover-as the central metaphor develops over the span of the collection with a wonderful crescendo arriving in the final poem. The Poet & The Architect is a nuanced and deftly crafted love story ""distilled in syllables, / laid bare in the last line's turn."" -Brian Turner, Here, Bullet Laced with love, art, and confession, the intricate geometries built into this wise and supple book gradually unfold a vast but fragile terrain. Call it home, call it human, this house of poetry ""vibrates with possibility""; from the folds of an intimate haptic map spring an archipelago of made-places, drawn out by dual seeking, happily singed with hot sauce, and no longer hiding in plain sight. Never reductive, these pliant poems are seductive, instructive, constructive and regenerative. The book's four fold frame builds, page on page, line on line, from free and cozy erotic couplets, through shared journeys, joys and pain, toward the wide-awake-world of home-made epiphanies: epic, comic, tragic, and cosmic. Much to mine-reader, dig in! -Ted Landrum, Midway Radicals & Archi-Poems"

With The Poet & The Architect, Christine Stewart-Nunez explores the architecture of self within the context of love. In a series of rings, we are given an ever-expanding architecture, / geometry a welcome language, / a new alphabet for / prayer and song. It's a book designed to be read cover to cover-as the central metaphor develops over the span of the collection with a wonderful crescendo arriving in the final poem. The Poet & The Architect is a nuanced and deftly crafted love story distilled in syllables, / laid bare in the last line's turn. -Brian Turner, Here, Bullet Laced with love, art, and confession, the intricate geometries built into this wise and supple book gradually unfold a vast but fragile terrain. Call it home, call it human, this house of poetry vibrates with possibility ; from the folds of an intimate haptic map spring an archipelago of made-places, drawn out by dual seeking, happily singed with hot sauce, and no longer hiding in plain sight. Never reductive, these pliant poems are seductive, instructive, constructive and regenerative. The book's four fold frame builds, page on page, line on line, from free and cozy erotic couplets, through shared journeys, joys and pain, toward the wide-awake-world of home-made epiphanies: epic, comic, tragic, and cosmic. Much to mine-reader, dig in! -Ted Landrum, Midway Radicals & Archi-Poems

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Christine Stewart-Nuñez, South Dakota's poet laureate (2019-2023), is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Untrussed (University of New Mexico Press, 2016) and Bluewords Greening (Terrapin Books, 2016), winner of the 2018 Whirling Prize. In 2019, the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English named her Author of the Year. As a professor at South Dakota State University, Christine's teaching, creative work, and service have earned accolades, including the Dr. April Brooks Woman of Distinction Award (2020) and the Outstanding Experiential Learning Educator Award (2019). She served on the board of directors for the South Dakota State Poetry Society from 2012-2018 and edited its poetry magazine, Pasque Petals, from 2014-2018. She's the founder of the Women Poets Collective, a regional group focused on advancing their writing through peer critique and support. She lives in Brookings with her husband, Brian T. Rex, a professor of architecture, and her two sons.

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