Bloom and Laceration: poems

by Ralph Black

Overview

At a time when the human ravages on the planet seem to be reaching a crescendo, the poems in Bloom and Laceration offer lamentations to a fragmented world and celebrations of beauty’s fierce persistence. Here are lyric poems on the vicissitudes of family played out against wild (and domesticated) nature. Here are long meditations on passing through, on glimpsing, on transience and transcendence. From Southern California to Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, to the south of France, and especially to the hills and woods of Upstate New York, Black’s poems are full of wonder and ferocity, exuberance and sorrow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780999499573
Publisher:	Green Writers Press
Publication date:	05/01/2018
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	7.85(w) x 8.49(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Ralph Black was raised in Maryland and educated at the University of Oregon and New York University. His first collection of poems, Turning Over the Earth, was published by Milkweed Editions. He is also the author of a chapbook, The Apple Psalms.  Black is the recipient of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review and the Chelsea Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Georgia and Gettysburg Reviews, Orion, and West Branch. He lives in Rochester, NY, and teaches at SUNY, College at Brockport.

Editorial Reviews

"In loving touch with process, full of the intimacy and clarity of home truths rightly earned—in language enacts the adventure of a consciousness making a home for itself, making itself at home, in the world.”

Eamon Grennan

“At the same time accounting to the particulars of our place, the poems in this book represent the movement of transfigurations into a made shape, the real place, the new place.”

A. R. Ammons

“Ralph Black’s Turning Over the Earth introduces an authentic poetic and ecological imagination. These meditations are eloquent and poignant, worthy of sustained reading.”

Harold Bloom