Blue Rooms, Morri Creech's long awaited fourth collection, explores the uncertain terrain between conscious perception and the objective world, and includes powerful lyric sequences that examine Magritte's surreal investigations of the elusive self, Cezanne's attempts to limn the dynamic nature of reality, and Goya's unflinching depictions of cosmic and historical horrors-all while balancing rich language with an exacting formal control.

Morri Creech is the author of the poetry collections Paper Cathedrals (Kent State UP, 2001), FIELD KNOWLEDGE (Waywiser, 2006), which received the Anthony Hecht Poetry prize and was nominated for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Poet's Prize, THE SLEEP OF REASON (Waywiser, March 2013), which was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, and BLUE ROOMS (The Waywiser Press, 2018). A recipient of NEA and Ruth Lilly Fellowships, as well as grants from the North Carolina and Louisiana Arts Councils, he is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte, where he teaches courses in both the undergraduate creative writing program and in the low residency MFA program. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the novelist Sarah Creech and their two children.