In this Book
- Bloom in Reverse
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
Bloom in Reverse chronicles the aftermath of a friend's suicide and the end of a turbulent relationship, working through devastation and loss while on a search for solace that spans from local bars to online dating and beyond to ultimately find true connection and sustaining love. Things move backwards, from death to life, like a reverse time-lapse video of a dead flower morphing from brittle, scorched entity to floral glory to nacsent bud. The poems seek to find those places where the natural world connects to and informs experiences at the core of human relationships, and at times call upon principles and theories from physics and mathematics to describe the complexities of love and loss. It's a book where grief, melancholy, heartbreak, and disillusionment intersect with urban romanticism, hope, possibility, and love. Bloom is all of it, the terrible and the beautiful.
Table of Contents
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- Confession
- p. 3
- Poem for a Troubled Room
- pp. 13-15
- Virginia Farm Haunting
- pp. 17-18
- Metempsychosis
- pp. 19-20
- II . Wolves in Shells
- pp. 25-26
- Into the Salvage Yard
- pp. 27-28
- Home Is a Four-Letter Word
- pp. 29-30
- Golden Ratio
- p. 31
- Mausoleum of the Unfixable
- pp. 32-36
- Split Screen
- p. 37
- Your Rose Bush
- p. 40
- Last Call Sestina
- pp. 41-42
- Transemotional
- pp. 43-44
- III. Hidden Wings
- pp. 47-48
- Chaos Theory
- pp. 51-53
- Mechanical Reproduction
- pp. 57-58
- Online Dating
- pp. 59-60
- Earth, Hair, Fire, Water
- pp. 61-62
- New York City
- pp. 63-64
- IV. Passenger
- pp. 67-68
- Elegy, Two Years Later
- pp. 69-70
- The Exactness of Birds
- pp. 71-72
- Ex as CSI Episode
- p. 73
- And Then You
- pp. 75-76
- The Last Good Man
- pp. 77-78
- Hooke’s Law
- p. 79
- Love as the Circle-to-Land Approach
- pp. 82-83
- Horseshoe Crabs
- pp. 84-87
- Advice for a Dying Fern
- pp. 88-90
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 91-92
- Back Cover
- p. BC
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822979647
Related ISBN(s)
9780822962977
MARC Record
OCLC
875638087
Pages
102
Launched on MUSE
2014-05-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014