You can find my other books here, as well as collections that include some of my poems, essays, and translations. Several wonderful journals have published my work; those journals are here.
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Buoyant Pinyon Press (2024)
"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
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Finishing Line Press (2019)
"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)
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" '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."
Claudia Monpere, author of “Car, Kitchen, Canyon: Mother Writing,” in Herspace: Women Writing in Solitude (The Haworth Press)
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Handsome
Deconstructed Artichoke Press (2011)
The chapbook Handsome by Rebekah Bloyd features fingers and thumbs at work and play; these hands-in-action move us into the storied moments of their owners.
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Seabook
Medúza (2000)
Medúza women's association is a nonprofit organization in Brno, The Czech Republic, initiating and supporting women's projects in the arts and society.
"Seabook...is a unified volume, a work of craft and sensitivity that traces a poet's engagement with a culture in all its varied aspects: linguistic, geographic, historical, artistic."
Don Bogen, author of The Known World
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"Rebekah Bloyd writes from inside the Caribbean with the sophisticated assurance of the traveler who discovers home in unexpected places, negotiating identities and landscapes with equal grace."
Carolyn Cooper, author of Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the"Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture
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If you're interested, contact me here to receive a free copy.
Borrowed Time art.earth (2022)
We’re all of us living on borrowed time: the brevity of our personal span of existence now mirrored by a biosphere under intolerable pressure. However incipiently or unconsciously, we live at a time of collective grieving–no life exempt from the consequences of this relentless devastation and what it has set loose.
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Borrowed Time: On Death, Dying & Change is nevertheless a celebration: a gathering of disparate voices using many registers and tones to delve into the depths of living with and dealing with death and dying with joy as well as with sadness.
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Includes my hybrid, collaborative essay, "The Scene Reveals: a film scene linked to the deceased."
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Buy it here.
Liquidscapes
art.earth (2018)
A rich assembly of essays, poetry, visual word experiment, and image, this book is a reflection on the Liquidscapes international symposium that took place at Dartington Hall (UK) in June 2018.
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Includes my hybrid, collaborative essay, "In Dialogue With Water: What Surfaces and Resurfaces."
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Miroslav Holub: Poems Before and After
Bloodaxe Books (2006)
With additional translations by David Young,
Dana Hábová, Rebekah Bloyd and Miroslav Holub
Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic’s most important poet, and also one of her leading immunologists. His fantastical and witty poems give a scientist’s bemused view of human folly and other life on the planet. Mixing myth, history and folktale with science and philosophy, his plainly written, sceptical poems are surreal mini-dramas often pivoting on paradoxes.
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Flash Fiction Forum Anthology
(2022)
Flash Fiction Forum is a reading series that takes place in San Jose, California, and now with hybrid in-person and online events. They are publishing an anthology of some of their contributors.
"Sympathy for the Urban Chicken" is included here.
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Buy it here.
