Everywhere Green and Scorch Marked

Paperback Book, 62 pages

Everywhere Green and Scorch Marked is a landscape of beauty & disaster in coexistence, illustrating the necessity of devastation for rebirth, & connecting human emotion & growth to the landscape of one’s surroundings.

“redemption is a smile

with sharp teeth…(from Everywhere Green and Scorch Marked)”

You Told the Bees

Soy Wax candle by Marvel + Moon

Comes in a 4oz. tin.

“This candle brings you the virtue of smoke and golden honey. It is both dizzying and a warm blanket of with its swirling notes of tobacco, incense, and spearmint. It is both hypnotic and comforting, like soft bodies in the summer. Every note unique. Every cell a wonder.” -Trista from Marvel + Moon

SCENT NOTES: Honey. Tobacco Leaves. Bergamot. Frankincense. Myrrh. Amber. Spearmint.

ADORNMENTS: Orange Rays of Flower Petals & Myrrh Resin

Bluff Broadside

8.5x11” cardstock print broadside of Katrina Greco’s poem, Bluff with art by Tucker Jameson. Comes in a plastic sleeve with a cardboard backing.

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“Imagine a great / being shedding / pieces of itself / every cell essential / every cell a wonder”—and you will have a Katrina Greco poem. This wondrous debut highlights one of poetry’s great paradoxes: the cellular smallness of the form, with all its confines and interiorities, is the very space where language is most relational, expansive, and given to renewal. The effluvia of an attentive life shimmers everywhere in this book, in deft lyric poems that reveal a rare appreciation for the textures of the material world and word. Everywhere Green and Scorch Marked is a vital poetry of the body that, at the same time, shatters the illusion of a singular self. It fundamentally insists that “no body is/really a body,” a commitment to ecopoetics that propels the personal into the collaborative, interpersonal. This work, from its perch in California, restlessly explores possibilities for a more tender existence on a traumatized planet—not in sweeping generalities, as so often is the case, but by pressing into particulars with, at times, a supersensory intensity: “hear ants /slide in the wounded rock.” At this level of perception, anything can happen. The poet can give birth to a pond, sail poems on its surface, enter the water, let it close over her body---so that all who read may also be immersed in that water of what is still other, what is still possible. There is no way to come out unchanged. These poems will scatter and recombine you.”

-Michelle Gil-Montero, publisher, Eulalia Books, author of Object Permanence. 

“Greco's debut collection of poems, Everywhere Green and Scorched Marked, is built with short lines that read thickly, as if the lines were a syrup of intimacy for the reader to sip. Couched in the realm of goddesses, mythical beings and Californian landscapes, the speaking agent is both welcoming to the impact of their emotive powers and aware that the moments of feeling are a mystical experience. The speaker zooms in on the body in a luscious and surreal manner, "I pull teeth/ out of my arm/ the part where I/ am undercooked." Digest this book like the meal that it is: "sweet and plummy."

-Sara Mumolo, author of Day Counter

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Katrina Greco

Katrina Greco is a poet in Oakland, where she lives with her husband, her cat, and her expanding collection of embroidery projects. Her work can be found in s/tick, White Stag, Quarterly West, Volume and elsewhere. A Pittsburgh native, she holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary's College of California, and teaches middle school language arts.