The Last Show on Earth: Poems

"Read against the backdrop of a global pandemic, the poems in Yvonne Blomer's latest collection, The Last Show on Earth, tap into the intimate nature of grief at the same time they speak to the collective nature of sorrow. The most ordinary of images—a boy standing in a field beneath a luminous moon—evokes a sudden inexplicable ache that resonates long after one has put the book down."

—Eve Joseph, award-winning author of Quarrels and In the Slender Margin

“Yvonne Blomer’s is a consummately tactile and embodied lyric, one in constant contact with the skin of children, the soil of the garden, the surfaces of water. Through loss and longing, these poems offer care for family and fellow creatures, moving through the insatiableness of life, of things run away from homeostasis, in recoil, spiral, tottering states of beauty for which there is no ‘normal,’ only love of all our errancies, all our failures. This book is a prayer offered against this being the last show on earth—a prayer for another show, for the gorgeous show of this earth to go on.”

—Stephen Collis, author of A History of the Theories of Rain