Brief description: Rebekah Bloyd's poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and translations appear in Harper's, The London Times Literary Supplement, Field, Poetry, and elsewhere. Her poetry collections are Seabook, Handsome, and Sister Island. A recipient of a Hedgebrook Residency as well as Fulbright grants to the Czech Republic and to Jamaica, Rebekah walks the shifting shore every chance she gets.
Review Quotes:
Ship out on the rafts of these intricately woven poems into waters at once buoyant and "increasingly familiar," even as they spirit you away again and again into darkening depths where your sailing skills better not fail you, else you'll be so disoriented you won't find your way back to port. Wobbly, having just tied up again, I can't wait to come by "una botella de Johnny Walker, / una Aspirina Bayer"; relieved but ever grateful, for "blue circles" which "illuminate near me," still, my "lungs filled with sea air." These poems will bring you back more alive than you've been in some time.
Stuart Friebert, author of Decanting: Selected & New Poems
(Lost Horse Press)
Skycloud at sea, silverquilted depths, blue bound--the sea is omnipresent in Rebekah Bloyd's evocative poems, which remind us how to feel both tenderness and grief. Her Caribbean landscapes are ripe with parrotfish and yellow birds and bright blue balconies, but also with traffic, graffiti, corruption, and a lost husband. Bloyd's lines, spun with occasional Spanish phrases, sing with a lyrical grace.
Claudia Monpere, author of "Car, Kitchen, Canyon: Mother Writing,"
in Herspace: Women Writing in Solitude (The Haworth Press)