Bloom in Reverse by Leo, Teresa

Bloom in Reverse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822962977)

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Bloom in Reverse by Leo, Teresa

Bloom in Reverse

$18.00
Bloom in Reverse by Leo, Teresa

Bloom in Reverse

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Teresa Leo
ISBN-10: 0822962977
ISBN-13: 9780822962977
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2014
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.70w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2014 pg. 95
By Teresa Leo
By Teresa Leo
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Teresa Leo is the author of the poetry collection The Halo Rule, which won the Elixir Press Editors' Prize. She is the recipient of a Pew fellowship, a Leeway Foundation grant, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships, and the Richard Peterson Poetry Prize from Crab Orchard Review. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She serves on the board of Musehouse, a center for the literary arts in Philadelphia, and works at the University of Pennsylvania.

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