Longevity [Paperback]

Longevity is a book-length narrative, a fictional prose poem told in fragments about the protagonists relationships with the women in her life and the deaths of those women: her mother, her best friend, her sister. Longevity is told in reverse, starting with the present and working back to the birth of the younger sister, which was the beginning, for the speaker, of both memory and loss.

Longevity is a book-length narrative prose poem that explores the nature of sisterhood through an unreliable narrators view

LAUREL BLOSSOM is also the author of, among others, Degrees of Latitude (Four Way Books), Wednesday: New and Selected Poems, and The Papers Said. She is the 2015 Poet Laureate of Edgefield, South Carolina, where she resides, and can be found online at www.laurelblossom.com.

PROLOGUE WITH BLUE SKY THE LONGEVITY OF BONE RED REWIND NOW WHAT WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT MY MOTHER THE INVENTION OF LOSS EPILOGUE WITHOUT END NOTES