Longevity - Softcover
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.
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. . . 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"
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"
. . . Blossom s long poem is buoyed by an elegant lyricism that is wrenching in its musicality . . . Gary Young"
." . . 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)
." . . 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)
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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"
. . . Blossom s long poem is buoyed by an elegant lyricism that is wrenching in its musicality . . . Gary Young"
." . . 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)
." . . 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)
LAUREL BLOSSOM is also the author of, among others, Degrees of Latitude (Four Way Books), Wednesday: New and Selected Poems, and The Papers Said. She is the 2015 Poet Laureate of Edgefield, South Carolina, where she resides, and can be found online at www.laurelblossom.com.
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- PublisherFour Way Books
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1935536621
- ISBN 13 9781935536628
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages72
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