EVERYDAY
MERMAID
POETRY ART BOOK
Poetry by Christina Isobel
Art by Deidre Scherer
Hardcover $24.00
Everyday Mermaid is a collaborative poetry art book by Christina Isobel and Deidre Scherer. Dive deeply into ordinary moments with Scherer's sewn textile art cradling Isobel's lyric narrative poetry.
“Deidre Scherer’s fabric work moves gracefully and elegantly throughout the book, weaving among Christina Isobel’s lovely, haunting poems. Everyday Mermaid is a beautiful book as well as a beautiful object, whose rewards are revealed in both time and space.”
Bathtub poems, washing-dishes poems, driving poems, walking poems, planting poems, looking-out window poems. Poems of marriage, giving birth, looking at grey hair. Poems of the ordinary. Moment to moment, day by day, season by season, living into growing older. Isobel had to stay open each day and be ready when the hum came--ready to write. At the end of the year, she looked into her hands and saw a poetic journal, a journal with gold at the end: she had found her life.
Isobel reached out to dear friend and artist, Deidre Scherer. They worked intimately to create cross-current visuals that invite the reader into the tactile inner world of the poems. Scherer created luminous images that cradle the poems and map the flow of Isobel’s life through the year.
