Lavina Blossom’s first book for Bamboo Dart Press is a dream. A collection of 32 poems that owes its vocabulary to a separate book of poems taken from the writer’s bookshelf–usually the first and last lines in that collection. The author set herself the challenge of creating a coherent poem from each word set without borrowing lines or phrases from the collection from which the words were taken. The poems are condensed and diverse, reflecting the mind of a poet as collage artist. Paintings by Lavina Blossom are interspersed among the poems to push further out what a collection of poems can be. A cohesive journey that truly represents the rich tapestry of two worlds of Lavina Blossom’s creative life. Here to be Remade is out January 20th. Here is a short film featuring a reading by Blossom from the book as well as her original artwork.