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In a Riptide

In a Riptide - Paperback

by Ronna Bloom
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ronna BloomPublish date:9/15/2025Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Brick BooksISBN-13:9781771316583ISBN-10:1771316586UPC:9781771316583Book Category:Body, Mind & Spirit, PoetryBook Subcategory:Mindfulness & Meditation, Canadian, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, LossSize:8.50 x 5.70 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCCGQ1Q0QQ

Featured on CBC's Fresh Air with David Cooper

Funny while serious, wise without being certain, full of feeling and yet rinsed of sentimentality.

The characters in Ronna Bloom's new collection In a Riptide are tired, sick, old, fragile, baffled, worried, dying, dead, uncertain, snacking, happy, generous, preoccupied, horny, astonished, and sometimes free. Emily Dickinson and Bukowski show up in the same poem. The Buddha has a shower. And Sisyphus is released from his burdens. It's the hospital meets the circus. Here, humour, darkness, and ecstasy mingle, and the chaos doesn't stop. But there's breath in these poems. There's life.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Brick BooksISBN-13:9781771316583ISBN-10:1771316586UPC:9781771316583Book Category:Body, Mind & Spirit, PoetryBook Subcategory:Mindfulness & Meditation, Canadian, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, LossSize:8.50 x 5.70 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCCGQ1Q0QQ

Ronna Bloom is a Toronto-based poet and educator and the author of seven books of poetry. Her work has been broadcast on CBC, recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and translated into Bangla and Chinese. Ronna is also someone who puts poetry to work in the world; she has led many initiatives to bring poetry into health care settings, specifically developing the first Poet-in-Residence program at Mount Sinai Hospital/Sinai Health. Ronna's most recent book is A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom, selected with an introduction by Phil Hall (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, September 2023). www.ronnabloom.com


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