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The transit of Venus, in which Venus passes between the Earth and the Sun, occurs in couplets eight years apart. These couplets don’t return for another century. If you miss them, you miss them forever.
In 1760, astronomer Matthew Sangster leaves his family in Dublin to observe the transit of Venus from India. Despite vowing to return within three years, Matthew’s journey is perilous. Delayed by events at sea, the deserts of Arabia, and the Seven Years’ War, he misses the first transit. To salvage his career, he decides to wait in India until Venus returns.
Matthew spends the next eight years attempting to survive in a world beyond his understanding. As empires collide around him, the heavens move slowly above. All the while, he struggles with doubt, temptation, and a vengeful warlord intent on killing him. With Venus drawing closer, Matthew’s options are to succeed in his task, or return to his family with nothing.
Drifting in New York City, Lincoln searches for something, anything. His military service has left him nihilistic. Human connection only comes from a prostitute in Brooklyn, Edie. Aware he’s a cliche, he falls for her. It’s June, 2014, and ISIS cloaks Iraq in black. “It was all for nothing.” Desperate, he decides—as only someone so dislocated can—“to find the most powerful person in the world and tell them I matter.” Success or death, nihilism is his greatest weapon.
If all the world is indeed a stage and men and women merely players, then The Bloom is the play. In the ancient tradition of epic poetry, The Bloom is told in a lyrical series of nearly 3,000 lines of poetry; inter-rhyming couplets, an unbroken stream of double-helix verse, the genetic rhyming code of Life’s immense vanquishing of Time. It is ultimately a spiritual journey, both individual and collective.