Poetry. Laurel Blossom's DEGREES OF LATITUDE is a book-length poem, really, divided by section breaks to give air. These are short sections, for the most part, and breezy. This is a book-length narrative that covers family and personal history and moves seamlessly through time and space. "This work crosses, formally and insightfully, the traditional borders of confession and memoir, and moves into the unknown, mapping what is visible as well as what has, until now, been hidden. I have been waiting a long time to read this book, and it is very much worth the wait"—Carolyn Forché.

Author City: EDGEFIELD, SC USA

Laurel Blossom is the author of Wednesday: New and Selected Poems, The Papers Said, What's Wrong, and Any Minute. Blossom has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and Harris Manchester College (Oxford University), where she serves on the Board of Regents. She cofounded the esteemed writing residency and workshop program The Writers Community. She serves on the boards of the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation in Vero Beach, Florida, and Edgefield Regional Arts in South Carolina. Blossom belongs to the Explorers Club and the Circumnavigators Club in New York City. She lives in rural South Carolina.

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