Laurel Blossom's New and Selected Poems, with its generous selection of first-rate new poems and poems carefully culled from three previous volumes, is a gift to anyone who reads and loves poetry.

A deeply moving and skillful book written by a grown up American woman. Read it and weep. Read it and sing.

Reading Blossom is like participating in a writer's mini-decathlon; the poetic stretch is there.

A daring voice out on the edge, held by her skill and courage. Ecstatic!

The reader comes in on Laurel Blossom mid-argument: she's wound up, passionate, impatient, but wholly present in these poems--and completely persuasive. I believe her side of it.

She can be just as punchy in her poems as any slam performer, and just as lyrical as any romantic.

Reading her poems is like watching a knife-thrower in full fling.

Go to "Poems" to see Laurel in lyric mode.

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