Reindeer in Dixie is a unique and essential offering for the Christmas bookshelf. In this heartwarming picture book, Santa sends two reindeer to live―not in a snowy village―but in the warm and lovely South. The expressive reindeer sisters Sugar Belle and Silver Bells quickly take a shine to their new home in Nashville. When they visit a local Ronald McDonald house during the Christmas season, Sugar Belle shows bravery in the face of a challenge. Her determination and courage brings great happiness to a young girl, inspiring her to apply the same effort to fighting her health battles. By turns, touching and funny, this retelling of a real-life event proves that the very heart of Christmas is alive and well in Dixie. Children will be delighted by the jolly Santa and loveable, inspiring reindeer. Ideal for reading aloud, this picture book is sure to become a perennial holiday favorite.

Reindeer in Dixie

Lee, Philip

Lee, Esther

Children's Books

Carpenters Son Pub

Poetry. In her second poetry collection SACRIFICIAL METAL, Esther Lee's poems offer a meditation through the lens of dance and human movement about the quiet dignities and alienation of illness, caregiving, and living in a racialized body. Part documentary poetics, part mourning diary, part textual choreography, and part nautical-inspired elegy, the poems in SACRIFICIAL METAL serve as inquiries about how we may become socialized or exiled from a community, along with how movement and dance offer possibilities of interconnectedness with one's own body and a sense of collective identity. "In SACRIFICIAL METAL, Esther Lee dances with astute curiosity and deep tenderness across the shifting grounds of grief, touch, bearing witness, memory, and our obstinate human instinct for future-planning. With great compassion, Lee's poems remind us that everything human eventually unravels, but her poems remind us too that joy is "like tragedy, it occurs--undeniably, relentlessly--every day." Every breath, every dusk, every dinner, every doctor's visit is at once both "tourniquet and artery"--just one of many gorgeous truths revealed in these pages." --Sean Dorsey, choreographer/dancer, writer and trans-justice activist "I see SACRIFICIAL METAL as a collection of letters to the self as though the self were a familiar stranger who speaks all the same languages, and happens to also be a scientist interested in the nature of time. This is a correspondence in which the world, and a person's understanding of its many forms of data, is rigorously contemplated and recorded. "Where am I in your body now," asks a poem. It's a beautiful question, one that bears repeating. Esther Lee writes worthy poetry that reveals a keen mind, as well as a spirit that is as intelligent as it is compassionate." --Tarfia Faizullah, author of Seam and Registers of Illuminated Villages

Sacrificial Metal

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Conduit Books & Ephemera

Winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Awards Esther Lee's Spit shines. Filled with bravado and brilliance, Lee's debut fills in the blanks it makes profound use of, hollering across the "rusted hollows." Utilizing a host of forms, from montage to prose poems, "Interviews with My [C]orean Father" to fractured sonnets. Lee echoes and evokes a multitude of identities: writer, sister, "good girl," lover. If this is the future of American poetry, as it appears to be, we are in good hands. --Kevin Young Spit, Esther Lee's debut collection of poems, interrogates the many tenuous connections that get forged....Here are visceral poems in which gardens are watered with urine, family members are marked by each others' "spit and fingernails," where love is tempered with violence. Still, the violence of the family life is a reflection of the ironic violence of the [C]orean immigrant experience in America, one in which its participants must leave one politically disrupted culture to join the other that helped to destroy it: a process that often historically negates the pain [C]orean individuals have had to endure in order to preserve the American "melting pot" mythology. Fresh and brutal, serious and comic, Spit is a deeply heartfelt examination of family, language, and personal connection in this multi-ethnic, multi-historied America. "Convert me please," Lee writes. Converted. --Paisley Rekdal Esther Lee's poems are calling out to the other in her wild quest to find herself. In letters, interviews and prayers she asks, pleads, demands recognition because she is the "good girl fight[ing] a medium-sized meteor," and the thing is hurling through space and aimed at her heart. In lines of breathtaking dexterity she juggles images and language itself like a romantic master. Her questions are plainspoken and elegant, straight-edged and rococo, high-minded and hilarious. Oh, the worlds that swirl in the brain of this poet, and we are lucky enough to be on the odyssey with her. --Barbara Hamby

Spit

Elixir Press

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