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Bloom / Until

By (author): Nelson Ball, Barbara Caruso

Nelson Ball was a poet, publisher, and bookseller, the author of several dozen poetry collections during his lifetime. His partner of over four decades, Barbara Caruso, was a visual artist, publisher, and poet who never published a full book of poems. Bloom / Until comprises Caruso’s first book, bringing together nearly all the linear poems she wrote, and Ball’s final collection of new poems, gathering work from the last few years of his life, including his unfinished long poem “Palliative Care,” about Barbara’s final months. Two artists who largely flew under the radar as they shared a life devoted to their respective arts now share a book. Each collection is introduced by friend and editor Stuart Ross.

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AUTHOR

Nelson Ball

Nelson Ball was born in Clinton, Ontario, and raised in southwestern Ontario. He was active as a poet, editor, and small press publisher in the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1972 he has been an antiquarian bookseller specializing in Canadian literature. He edited Frank Harrington’s Kristmiss Book, published by The Mercury Press in 1993, and is the author of three Mercury poetry books, At the Edge of the Frog Pond, Almost Spring, and The Concrete Air. Ball resides in Paris, Ontario, where the Nith and Grand Rivers converge.


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Barbara Caruso

Barbara Caruso (1937-2009) was a visual artist and writer. Known for her abstracts exploring colour and space, she had over twenty solo shows and participated in many group shows, in Canada and internationally. Though her micropress Seripress she published the works of visual poets. Barbara was the author of the autobiographical A Painter’s Journey, in two volumes, and the essay collection Wording the Silent Art. Nelson and Barbara lived together in Toronto, then in Paris, Ontario, for 44 years.


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Nelson Ball was a poet, publisher, and bookseller, the author of several dozen poetry collections during his lifetime. His partner of over four decades, Barbara Caruso, was a visual artist, publisher, and poet who never published a full book of poems. Bloom / Until comprises Caruso’s first book, bringing together nearly all the linear poems she wrote, and Ball’s final collection of new poems, gathering work from the last few years of his life, including his unfinished long poem “Palliative Care,” about Barbara’s final months. Two artists who largely flew under the radar as they shared a life devoted to their respective arts now share a book. Each collection is introduced by friend and editor Stuart Ross.

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Dimensions:

140 Pages
8.875in * 5.75in * 1in
1lb

Published:

November 15, 2022

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Mansfield Press

ISBN:

9781771262828

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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