Deluxe Box of Crayons: Poetry and Collage

This latest illustrated volume by Kathy Cotton is a diverse and colorful collection of celebratory, reflective, and elegiac poetry, complemented by her first series of digital collage. In the prize-winning title poem, Cotton invites you to “a deluxe handful of myself/perfectly matched to you.” Whether reader or writer, youth or elder, dancer or quiet thinker, you will connect in Deluxe Box of Crayons to an author who adds strokes of vibrant color to every canvas of her life. Rich in metaphor and prosody, this substantial new work is sprinkled with short selections from the first national publication of her poetry in the early ’70s, bringing full-circle Cotton’s joyful gift of word-crafting.