A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom
published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
“This is lyric poetry, scraped to the bone. Shamanic, essential, useful. As poetry can be. As it is, in Ronna Bloom’s hands.” — Susan Wismer, The Miramichi Reader
In A Possible Trust, Bloom writes concisely of the fragility and determination of people in daily life and extraordinary health crises. She is attentive to suffering, as well as to spontaneous connections and gestures of love. Her poetry has been used by teachers, architects, spiritual leaders, and in hospitals across Canada.
Editor and poet Phil Hall's Introduction "To Lead by Crying" argues for a poetics of empathy. There is tenderness here where living matters, as does dying, a valuing of the incident, the encounter, the sorrow and the bowl-me-over delight. These poems stand firm with readers.