Flood Bloom

2013

“Caroline Cabrera’s Flood Bloom sparks with generosity. We’re welcomed into a version of this world that amplifies the one we ordinarily inhabit. Cabrera lets us have magic, she lets us levitate, she gives a little sleight of hand. These poems are a great, truly melded, mighty mixture of what is seriously impossible to get at, and what moods and manners let us compensate for impossibility; there’s wit, scorching intelligence, precision, love of handling words, syntax and sonics; there’s heart, compassion, empathy, imagination, invitation. This is an incomparably strong debut.”

—Dara Wier