Superbloom

Author: Catherine Esposito Prescott

Publisher: Gunpowder Press (2026)

“Catherine Esposito Prescott’s Superbloom is a heart-rending tour of mother-grief. In this carefully calibrated examination of what it feels like to live past the loss of a child grown in one’s own body, Prescott find grace and faith, a tenderness almost shocking in the face of a loss so powerful its gravity could easily become a black hole of pain and anger. These poems insist on the continuity of all living beings, refusing Dylan Thomas’s rage, and supposing that Whitman may be right when he says ‘there is really no death,’ but of course, there is death, her son’s death, and the power of this collection is that it keeps both him and her in this world, held firm by each reader lucky enough to open this book.”

—Jason Schneiderman