Longevity

. . . a lyrical book-long dream-meditation on trauma, transgression and how, in desire and empathy, we fashion from loss the shapes that sustain us. Carol Muske-Dukes"
. . . Blossom s long poem is buoyed by an elegant lyricism that is wrenching in its musicality . . . Gary Young"
Dreams are ways in which we can see what we sometimes don't want to see, where in some brief truce we might work out our human conditions. Blossom's book-length poem Longevity achieves such translation: bordering the longed-for and the ill-gotten, a speaker sorts out her survivorship: a sister, a mother, a dear one. This poem skirts 9/11, family and the degradation of the body in time and illness, as 'Memory catches on the sprockets of grief.' Elsewhere the poet declares 'Everything is elegy' as she hovers around the longitudes of place, of intersection, of what is outlived, as if our human fragments make up a solution." Sophia Cabot Black"
." . . a lyrical book-long dream-meditation on trauma, transgression--and how, in desire and empathy, we fashion from loss the shapes that sustain us."--Carol Muske-Dukes (1/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)
." . . Blossom's long poem is buoyed by an elegant lyricism that is wrenching in its musicality . . ."--Gary Young (1/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)
"Dreams are ways in which we can see what we sometimes don't want to see, where in some brief truce we might work out our human conditions. Blossom's book-length poem Longevity achieves such translation: bordering the longed-for and the ill-gotten, a speaker sorts out her survivorship: a sister, a mother, a dear one. This poem skirts 9/11, family and the degradation of the body in time and illness, as 'Memory catches on the sprockets of grief.' Elsewhere the poet declares 'Everything is elegy' as she hovers around the longitudes of place, of intersection, of what is outlived, as if our human fragments make up a solution.--Sophia Cabot Black (1/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)