Seth Rosenbloom
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Like Angels
by Seth Rosenbloom
ISBN: 9781962405997
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Seth Rosenbloom is a poet, performing artist, and consultant to companies on leadership. Seth has written and performed solo shows staged at On the Boards, Theatre Off Jackson, and Bumbershoot. His poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Tupelo Quarterly, Orange Blossom Review and other journals. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net, shortlisted for publication awards by CutBank, 42 Miles Press and Frontier Poetry, and been a finalist for the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Prize.
Seth has volunteered for Mother Theresa in Kolkata, worked the set of an Oscar-winning short film, built multimedia technology for Vodafone and Sony, was the third employee of a start-up purchased by Microsoft, and established a management consulting practice that helped organizations across the US. He consults with companies and coaches executives. Seth was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Virginia, and lives in Seattle. For more about his poetry, go to http://www.seth-rosenbloom.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Like Angels follows a life across memory, inheritance, and loss––moving from a Virginia childhood through the shadow of a father’s suicide, into marriage and fatherhood. The poems reckon with what is carried from those who came before––ancestors who survived the Holocaust, grandparents who built a life in America, a father whose absence is both a ghost and an angel to his grown son. Across generations and geographies, the weight of grief is lifted by desire. Like Angels asks what it means to be good, to be devoted, and how love can keep us.
ADVANCE PRAISE:
In Seth Rosenbloom’s poems, the dead are everywhere. Though rather than haunt, they “prefer to talk amongst/themselves” and leave the living to untangle thick roots of memory, history, joy and grief. This is a poignant and skillful debut that asks important questions: What does it mean to be a good son? A caring father? To carry forth a relationship that’s been broken by suicide? Here, in poems of great lyrical precision, our everlasting themes of love and loss burn brightly as “the mind/smolders and erupts into a blaze.” Like Angels is a collection that spans a lifetime, and beyond.
––Jared Harél, author of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
Seth Rosenbloom’s luminous debut collection, Like Angels, lives in radiant communion with ghosts: a great aunt who survived the Holocaust, a grandmother on her way to Wegmans, a grandfather reading a book. And most central to these poems is the ghost of the speaker’s father, whom he lost young to suicide. We see this ghost looking skyward at red cedars; he picks up a dinner fork alongside other deceased relatives; he visits the room at his son’s eye exam. In such moments, Rosenbloom explores the pain and virtue of filial love and reminds us that whether we have it or have lost it, love keeps us. Here, the lyrical depiction of this love leaves us breathless with wonder, gratefully haunted and blessed.
––Jeanine Walker, author of The Two of Them Might Outlast Me
In Seth Rosenbloom’s Like Angels, personal and collective history comes alive through the portrayal of specific, deeply inhabited memories. Within these poems, we find landscapes “too big to be seen across” so they are lived within. Family histories unfold and accumulate. These are poems that speak clearly “even through the hiss and static” of time, showing a deep attentiveness to ancestry, as well as ahead, toward parenting and the re-conceiving of childhood that it represents. Rosenbloom writes with an honesty and openness that will appeal to readers and other poets alike.
––Bill Carty, author of We Sailed on the Lake
