Coming with Brick Books September 15, 2025!
In a Riptide
Poems by Ronna Bloom
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.
“A marvel.”
Souvankham Thammavongsa, Author of How to Pronounce Knife
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“Ronna is a very gifted facilitator; blending her love of language with a spirit of play and a great respect for individual’s needs and experiences.”
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“Use these poems as breaks in meetings
that become tense and threaten.
Use them to alter the wind in the room,
the sail in the boat can fill and go a different direction.”