Old Monarch

Old Monarch

by Courtney Marie Andrews
Old Monarch

Old Monarch

by Courtney Marie Andrews

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Change is inevitable. There are so many junctions in life that we wish it weren’t so. Courtney Marie Andrews’ debut title allows us those uncomfortable moments. We grow with her as we make our way through her poems. Before long, we understand the book’s title and, along with that, a better understanding of ourselves. Once again, poetry is an alchemy available at our fingertips. Turn the page with us, please.

Some people are like monarch butterflies—solitary by nature, on a passionate search for somewhere. Critically acclaimed songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews presents her first poetry collection.

This poetry collection reads like a transformation, me, the narrator, being the figurative Old Monarch. Documenting this journey, the book is separated into three sections, "Sonoran Milkweed," "Longing In Flight," and "Eucalyptus Tree (My Arrival to Rest)."

In the first stage of my journey, I explore my childhood in Arizona, and the naive assumptions of youth. At this stage in my journey, I am impressionable, seeing the world with all its nuances for the first time. Through the landscape of the Sonoran Desert, I explore some dark family dynamics and what a child sees. Several characters turn up in the early poems including my cowboy grandpa, and the single mother who raised me, despite many forthcomings. The early poems also explore my desire to see a brighter world of possibility beyond the dusty desert island, and see humans more clearly within the confounds of discovery.

In the second stage, I have left home. I am falling in love for the first time, as I become a young woman.

Finally, the last stage is the old monarch's arrival to the garden. There are a lot of metaphysical and philosophical poems in this section. I arrive at the figurative garden, and I finally understand the journey at the edge of my life. There are a lot of poems in the context of a garden here, accepting mortality and the ever-changing world. These are meant to be wise old woman poems.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781524865627
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date: 04/06/2021
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 1,067,762
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Courtney Marie Andrews is an Arizona-born poet and critically acclaimed songwriter. Old Monarch is Andrews's first book of poetry and centers around themes of longing and a desire to belong while excavating scenes from her childhood in the American Southwest.
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