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Winner of the 2021 Louise Bogan Award, Bloomer, by Jessica Hincapié transports us to humid, wild Florida, where fear and fascination stand hand in hand. By invoking elements of death, religion and nature, Hincapié traverses the landscape of her youth, where "nights like these can trick you into thinking the disappearing can be beautiful too." Hincapié's bravery is found in her complete transparency, which reveals the adversity an artist faces when striving for success and a place in the world at large. Bloomer's poems pull us into a hazardous and tropical swampland of a speaker consistently confronted by the violence and wonderment of being alive.
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“The poems in Jessica Hincapié’s Bloomer are remarkable: strange, open-mouthed flowers singing songs of existential precarity in the uncertain sunlight of our contemporary moment. Teetering on the precipice of becoming and unbecoming, Hincapié’s poems sinuously unfurl themselves in the liminal and symbolic spaces of doorways as they question the nature of choice, the ubiquity of violence, the certainty of pain, and transformation. These are shape-shifting, expansive, quick-witted and fast-moving poems that—like rivers, or like fog—are unafraid to change course or take up space as they offer tribute to the inevitable and illusory beauties of transience. ”
“Surely this is how you observe the darkness / without trying to set it on fire” writes the author of Bloomer, a book that is surprising on each page, with its language, its variousness, its thematic scope. Marvelous poetry work is being done here.”
“With strong voice and vitality, Jessica Hincapié’s debut collection presents us again and again with the absurd reality of the present moment: being a being in a body in a country in a world that offers endless opportunities for transcendent irony, small revelations, and the disorienting experience that is selfhood.”
