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Breaking Into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings

Breaking Into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings

Hankins, Luke
Stone, Nomi
Akbar, Kaveh

Paperback

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Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1680034383
ISBN13: 9781680034387
Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
Published: Feb 12 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

-Selected as a 2026 Recommended Book for ELLE Magazine by Maggie Smith

Breaking into Blossom gathers modern and contemporary poems that use a wide array of techniques and approaches to ending the poem: endings that crescendo and exhort, double back or taper down, those that reverse expectation, embody paradox, or enact their logic in their formal DNA. In their introductory craft essay, co-editors Luke Hankins and Nomi Stone grapple with questions of closure, wholeness, pleasure, power, universalism, subjectivity, discord, exclusion, resistance, surprise, and bewilderment. Finding fracturing points in their own conversation while considering the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of different kinds of endings, the editors consider such questions as the value of epiphany, what kinds of endings might be likelier to be commodified, how the poem and the mind keep going beyond the page, and more. Hankins and Stone also offer a taxonomy of ending types to think with. This groundbreaking anthology includes poems about mystery, love, dread, cruelty, violence and war; poems of motherhood; of disability; of masculinity; of queerness; of baldness. Poems of transforming bodies and Black joy and failure and hope. The poems sometimes break into blossom; other times, they just break. Or they leave us in wonderment with their quiet buds unfolding into the world.

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