A powerful yet tender collection of poems that invites us to return again and again, spellbound as if in a dream. Award-winning author and educator Sherre Vernon’s collection of poems, Translating Blue, explores language, identity, and love, and considers how even in a lifetime of challenge and heartbreak one can find something beautiful and holy in this life. Whether she is writing about motherhood, friendship, sexuality, or swimming, her beautiful poems invite us in so we can’t help but fall into their depths to be held and gently guided along. The collection includes both formal (sonnet, sestina, ghazal) and free verse poetry.