Limited to 1500 copies of which 300 were produced for the Rowfant Club. A volume of poetry, printed for the Rowfant Club in Caslon Linotype and Garamond on Mohawk Letterpress paper. Quarter bound in canvas khaki, Ingres light no. 620 on boards, Ingres light no. 609 for endpapers. Paper cover label scuffed. xii, 51, 5 pages. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper cover label.. small 8vo..

What's Wrong: Poems

Blossom, Laurel

Cobham & Hatherton Pr

An anthology of poetry and fiction by members of The Writers Community includes works by Beth Bauman, Michael Cunningham, Alan Dugan, Louise Gluck, Allan Gurganus, Jessica Hagedorn, and Ntozake Shange

Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from the Writers Community (Writers Community Book)

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MILKWEED EDITIONS *

Review\nI adore this book!! I feel like I'm swimming as I'm reading! Laurel Blossom catches with lyric clarity the feel of swimming, the allure and faith in the water's elegant wit and power that we learned from Esther Williams. Un- is a gift: no other poetry has so captured the magic of swimming, the body's favorite dance floor!! 
--Jill Schary Robinson, author of Perdido\nImagine a Hollywood mystery written by a feminist Raymond Chandler, and you'll be close to the spirit of this astonishingly original book of poems. Un- is a classic who-done-it, in which the reader is confronted with missing persons, misidentified characters, friends named after movie stars, and movie stars who are both more and less than they appear to be. Like all good mysteries, Un-is also a love story, though in this case the romance is with water. Understudies, missed connections, and missed opportunities percolate through the watery lens of the book's ubiquitous swimming pools, whose buoyancy and transparency is juxtaposed with water's ability to dissolve and erase. Women bear the brunt of this undoing: Un-, as in unappreciated, uncredited, unknown, and unnamed. I dare anyone to find more excitement, mystery, intelligence, and shear bravado wrapped in such an elegant package. 
--Gary Young, author of That's What and Even So: New and Selected Poems\nA mystery charges the center of Laurel Blossom's superb Un-. The object of the poet's acute attention is a Mrs. Godfrey, understudy to Esther Williams, Hollywood's mid-century swim goddess. And the "un" of Un- is "uncredited"--which is an injustice, maybe, in Hollywood, but Blossom also explores the ways in which it can be a blessing to be able to remake oneself anonymously, without the burden of a "name." Another "un" here is the poet's project to un-erase the past, access it, and feed her hunger for stories that have glancing, enigmatic connections with her own. But her discoveries are tentative, because no one, including the poet herself, exactly tells the truth in this story: truth is as changeable as the fluid that was Williams's element, and the poet makes up delightful, often hilarious, stuff with great élan. Blossom deploys all the attributes of a great detective--imagination, perseverance, and guile--because she understands that when we choose certain people as objects of devotion and curiosity, the genius and vertú of those people (as Machiavelli used the word, to mean excellence, honor, and power), even far away in space and time, can be life-changing or even life-saving. So it is with this marvelous book. 
--Patrick Donnelly, author of Little-Known Operas, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, and The Charge

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Finishing Line Press

Laurel Blossom's Degrees of Latitude is a book-length poem, really, divided by section breaks to give air: these are short sections, for the most part, and breezy, this is a book-length narrative that covers family and personal history and moves seamlessly through time and space. “[This is] almost a lyric novel, so sweepingly re-imagined is the life it illuminates but it is as well an expedition into territory seldom explored in lyric mode. Blossom begins her journey on an icebreaker during the white nights of a polar north―cold as childhood―and then turns her gaze upon the uncharted regions of family history, secrecy and illusion, bravely and with uncommon self-knowledge, in deft and beautifully cadenced language that belies the arduousness of her task. This work crosses, formally and insightfully, the traditional borders of confession and memoir, and moves into the unknown, mapping what is visible as well as what has, until now, been hidden. I have been waiting a long time to read this book, and it is very much worth the wait.”

Degrees of Latitude

Four Way Books

Longevity is a book-length narrative, a fictional prose poem told in fragments about the protagonist’s relationships with the women in her life and the deaths of those women: her mother, her best friend, her sister. Longevity is told in reverse, starting with the present and working back to the birth of the younger sister, which was the beginning, for the speaker, of both memory and loss.

Longevity

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What's Wrong: Poems

Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from the Writers Community (Writers Community Book)

Un-

Degrees of Latitude

Longevity