Blade by Blade

At its core, Blade by Blade is a collection about grief. It will touch readers who have lost children or siblings, and offers a path towards acceptance through embracing the beauty and power of nature.
Laméris served as the Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California
Laméris won the Northern California Book Award and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award
The final poem in the collection, “Let Rain Be Rain,” was commissioned by Montage Health Monterey and is shared in the waiting room of the Breast Cancer Center
Laméris was a painter before she was a poet. She began writing in adulthood after she found a flier for a poetry class being taught by Ellen Bass (they are now friends).
Potential audiences: readers who identify with African American/Caribbean American communities; people who have lost a loved one to suicide; parents who have lost a child; fans of nature, ecopoets, animal-watchers, and human-animal relationships

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