With a vintage typewriter, her grandmother’s old sewing machine, scraps of paper, and a whole lot of heart and soul, Julian Blue has created a collection of poetry called Bloom. Bloom is a sensual, spiritual, sapphic work of art. Each poem is an intimate portrait of what it was like to find herself falling in love with women, to break free from oppressive religious and cultural norms, to fight for authenticity, and ultimately, fall in love with her true self. Blue attributes her inspiration for poetry to Mary Oliver, Robert Frost and Rilke, and claims it was these lines from Mary Oliver’s A Pretty Song that held her through her hardest days of coming “From the complications of loving you I think there is no end or return. No answer, no coming out of it. Which is the only way to love, isn’t it?” Bloom takes you on a journey of seeing all the complications of loving, especially yourself, and offers the inspiration to rave on, choose the road less traveled, and just keep going.