Precis: "Fight"
Current Projects
A manuscript of lyric poems is in development, as is a third book-length narrative prose poem.
Praise for Publications
Four Way Books published Longevityin October, In its Highlighting Fall Poetry , Publishers Weeklylisted Longevityamong its poetry picks. In its Spring, issue, Per Contrasays of Longevity: “Blossom's Longevityis a remarkable book, indisputable evidence that prose poetry, too, will make you ‘feel physically as if the top of [your] head were taken off.’ ”
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.'
Sophie Cabot Black
In Laurel Blossom's Longevity, we share a survivor's guilt for deaths both imagined and experienced—a falling away from love, a piecing-together of fragments of memory, a lyrical bookl
LAUREL BLOSSOM is the author of two book-length narrative prose poems, Degrees of Latitude and Longevity, both from Four Way Books. Previous books of lyric poetry include Wednesday: New and Selected Poems, The Papers Said, What’s Wrong, and a chapbook, Any Minute. Her work has appeared in many magazines, journals, and anthologies, including More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. A chapbook, Un-, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Laurel served as the first ever Poet Laureate of Edgefield South Carolina (). She attended the Community of Writers in
Prize-winning poet Laurel Blossom'slatest book, a chapbook entitled Un-, has just been published (March, ) by Finishing Line Press.
Laurel’s second book-length narrative prose poem, Longevity, was published by Four Way Booksin October You can find excerpts called "The Longevity of Bone" at Tupelo Quarterly 2, "The Invention of Loss" at Frigg Magazine #43, "Red Rewind" at Linnet's Wings Summer , and "Now What" in Hotel Amerika #13.
Longevityis the second in a projected trilogy of long poems, the first of which was Degrees of Latitude, published by Four Way Booksin Blossom's earlier books include Wednesday: New and Selected Poems, The Papers Said, What's Wrong, and Any Minute, a chapbook, which was nominated for the Elliston Prize. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day(Billy Collins, editor) and in national magazines including Poetry, Pequod, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Pleiades, Harper's, the Southern Poetry Reviewand Ocean State Review. Online, some of her work appears at Per Contraand Taos journal of poetry and art, as well as at International Psy
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