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Paleotempestology, as no one would know, is the study of storms and the central theme rippled throughout Bertha Isabel Crombet's debut collection. Beginning, very literally, with a poem titled ""Waiting for Hurricane Irma"" in which she wishes for a ""fresh disaster to eclipse [her] old one"", she sets the precedent for the entire book, which goes on to explore emotional turbulence in it's myriad forms, including heartbreak, memory, and myth. Presented with both whimsy and wit, fear and candor, imagination and certainty, and all via the lens of a Cuban-American woman navigating the often funny and treacherous landscape of dating in the modern world, the poems churn and churn to reveal how both grief and hope can coexist.

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Paleotempestology is the study of past tropical cyclone activity, which is to say the study of ancient and recurring storms, which is to say love and other natural disasters. Let Bertha Crombet take it from there. With gristle and pulped heart, she reminds [us] of something that never happened, and of many things that did: first loves, first kisses, first heartbreaks, first dating apps, Brad Pitt after Jennifer Aniston (but before Angelina Jolie). Wouldn't you like me to tell you everything? writes this witty, astute, and riveting poet. The answer is always yes, always please, always now. -Julie Marie Wade, author of SIX and Same-Sexy Marriage

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