Nelson Ball

Bloom / Until Nelson Ball

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.