About the Book DiNennas poems take us through the zodiac and seasons of childhood illness, calling us to bear witness to the unseen. These poems tell the story of one girls struggle for life. Book Synopsis Girl in Tulips is part lyric, part incantation and prayer, part memoir of love and longing. We travel into the underworld of wards with intimacy, wonder, provocation, observing the intricacies of family relationships while tottering on the edge of hope, as DiNennas poems take us through the zodiac and seasons of childhood illness, calling us to bear witness to the unseen, the unheard. These poems tell the story of one girls struggle for life, the sacredness of childhood and innocence, with tenderness, astonishment, and transformation. You will land in places you never thought youd visit with people you never expected to meet. DiNennas poems are intellectual and spiritual, existential and surreal, environmental and profound. A debut collection shockingly candid, offering peace and a place to grieve, hope, and yearn. Review Quotes The book of poems Girl in Tulips by Julianne DiNenna is a wound healer. Carmen Bugan , George Orwell Prize Fellow These poems heartbreakingly hold on for dear life but, even more heartbreakingly, demonstrate the need to let go into living. Dr. Jeana DelRosso , Sister Maura Eichner Endowed Chair of English Girl in Tulips is a guide for the gut disguised as a poetry collection.... Elizabeth Boquet , author of Galoshes These deeply felt poems are full of fierce hope, faith, healing, and acceptance. Mary-Jane Holmes , author of Set a Crow to Catch a Crow and Dont Tell the Bees A moving collection that holds us close and breaks our hearts. Hannah Greico , editor of Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away Girl in Tulips gazes unflinchingly upon illness and caregiving, anguish and tenderness, grief and loss, and the countless myth-imbued mysteries of our aching, extraordinary lives. Romana Iorga , author of Temporary Skin Oh God, how this collection aches with loss, love, the unimaginable re-imagined into these poems for a baby girl, a wish for her to come home.... Randall Brown , founder and managing editor of Matter Press