"Rebekah Bloyd takes us on a wide-ranging, hydrological journey: her words—solid, fluid, vaporous—traversing a 'globe without axis.' "

          Ellen Orleans, author of Inside, The World Is Orange and Mother Blue & The Deep Down Under

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"To read this radiant collection is to dive right into the waters of our shared planet Earth. Whether responding to the behavior of water, the epidemic of gun violence, or a social media text, Bloyd examines the spiritual energies that both connect and separate us from the natural world and from one another."

          Caroline Goodwin, author of Madrigals and Old Snow, White Sun

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“Outlines of life, filled with light and shadow and color, never forgetting the negative space.”

          Mary Tang, author of Not Perfect: One Poet’s Translation of 60 Chinese Poems

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"From the kinetic opening of the first poem, 'a field of children roars/into a seascape/swimming perpendicular' to the poignant ending of the last poem, 'Handsome, her hand on the world/burst/open/of its own accord' the reader encounters precise, surprising imagery and form. Buoyant entwines stark truths about our planet and our lives, what we have lost—species, habitats, lovers, family—with joy at what we still have."

          Judith Serin, author of Gravity and Hiding in the World

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 “A shimmering collection that buoys the spirit at a time when it feels like so much is going under.”

          Sharon Marshall, author of Water Child and Deep Rivers