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ESTABLISHED POET Lisa Krueger is the author of five poetry collections UNIVERSAL APPEAL with themes of surviving adversity, the problem of suffering, and human connectedness MIXED MEDIA MEMOIRFloriography Child is made up of poems, visual art, micro-essays, and the language of flowers to tell a story of a mother’s love MOTHER DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS supporting one another through a chronic illness diagnosis INTERDISCIPLINARY AUTHOR Lisa Krueger’s work is informed by her professional background as a licensed clinical psychologist

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Poems in this collection appear as psalms or elegies for an ill daughter, often rendered through a mother's obsession with flowers. The poems are like small impressionist paintings by a poet with a controlled hand and eye and strong voice. -Dorianne Laux, author of Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems

“Poems in this collection appear as psalms or elegies for an ill daughter, often rendered through a mother’s obsession with flowers. The poems are like small impressionist paintings by a poet with a controlled hand and eye and strong voice.”—Dorianne Laux, author of Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems

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Lisa C. Krueger, PhD, MFA, is a clinical psychologist. Her poems have appeared in various journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner, and with Red Hen Press. She has published articles on the creative process and parallels between poetry and therapy, as well as interactive journals for girls and women. Recent poems have been included as finalists for the Catamaran Poetry Prize, the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize. She maintains a therapy practice with subspecialties in health psychology, women’s issues, and writing therapy. She lives in Pasadena, CA. Floriography Child is her fifth book of poetry.

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