About the Author

Laurie Rosenblatt is the Director of Psycho-Oncology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. She is the author of In Case a full-length book of poems published by Pecan Grove Press in 2013. In 2012, Cloud 10 her collaboration with the painter Richard Raiselis, was distributed by Gallery NAGA in Boston. Her chapbook, Blue, was published by University of Toledo Press in 2012. Individual poems have appeared in The Common, Harvard Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Salamander, JAMA, and elsewhere.

Reviews

The title itself tells us that this is a remarkable book. Despite all the clever titles that turn up these days, this title stands out for its rhythmic sense of danger. We are warned. And what follows is intense beauty and grief. Collaging her text with quotations, poetry, prose poetry, and descriptive accounts among the best I have ever read, Rosenblatt has constructed a close-up view of mental distress, disruption, and deterioration. Most such attempts fail, some even becoming comic. This work speaks the truth-and the horror-and the love that persists through everything. -Kelly Cherry, author of Twelve Women in a Country Called America: Stories In A Trapdoor, A Rupture, Something with Kinks, Laurie Rosenblatt brings the shifting spaces of love, family and memory into vivid view. Past and present wrestle for accommodation, devotion and pain are constants, and dementia forges its own savage narrative. This work is a testament to the capacities of the human mind and heart. -Jacquelyn Pope, author of Watermark and Hungerpots: Selected and New Poems by Hester Knibbe