In this chronicle of 2020, Ronna Bloom experiences a year of seeing strangers with eyes full of “tears,” of frozen dinners instead of family gatherings, of forgetting even how to ask questions. “And make me a right-now compassion rattle,” cries the poet, “for the sickness and the / sacred are the same path.” 5.5 x 8.5 in., 28 pages, hand sewn and bound, with french flaps ISBN 978-1-9992166-5-8 Published, March 2022, in an edition of 100 numbered copies. About the Author: Ronna Bloom is the author of seven books of poetry. She has led initiatives to bring poetry into health care, developing the Poet in Residence program at Sinai Health. Ronna has collaborated with filmmakers, choreographers, and architects and in 2018, her poem "The City," was painted by PLANT Architects 35 meters wide on King Street in Toronto. Her recent book is A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom, selected with an Introduction by Phil Hall (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2023). In 2025, In a Riptide will be published by Brick Books. www.ronnabloom.com
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