About the Author:
Barbara Bloom grew up in California and British Columbia. She earned a bachelor's degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz and a master's degree in English and creative writing from San Francisco State, and has taught composition and creative writing at Cabrillo College for over twenty years. She has a grown daughter and two grandsons and lives with her musician husband and their dog in the countryside south of Santa Cruz. On the Water Meridian is her first full-length book.
Review:
For over thirty years Barbara Bloom has been quietly attending to the careful, solitary work of a dedicated writer, and through those years she has garnered a reputation as one of Santa Cruz's fines lyric poets. Her first full-length book, On the Water Meridian, gathers the best of her poems, and what a pleasure it is to have them, and to turn to them, during these troubling times. Barbara Bloom's poems are a clear window into a world of wonder, of childhood lived in the wilds of British Columbia, of a commitment to family and friendship, and an abiding reverence for the natural world. Here are poems of a life lived with loving attention, poems that praise and celebrate our incandescent moment in this world. Beneath the lyrical surface of her poems, there is a courage and tenacity of spirit that is prepared to go through the fire to save what she loves. Her work has earned a quietness at the center, where she can say, 'Walk slowly. / Empty yourself / of all cruelty. / What is sent forth as love / returns as love. / Reach out your hand / in good faith.' Her poems enact that love, they reach out to us, they give us faith, they help us cherish this life. --Joseph Stroud, author of Country of Light, Below Cold Mountain, Signatures, and In the Sleep of Rivers
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