Bury Me in Cherry Blossoms is a book of romantic poetry. Each poem is an invitation to share a moment of openness, presence, and honesty. This is a collection grounded in the natural, crafted with care, rich with emotion, and effervescent with excerpts from a life rich with human emotion.

Bury Me in Cherry Blossoms takes you by the hand from the very first page, and each piece within its pages is an invitation to share in a moment of openness, presence, and honesty. This is a collection grounded in the natural, crafted with care, rich with emotion, and effervescent with the pieces of a life that make us who we are.

— Mia Vance, author of Instead of Butterflies

It begins with the title, Bury Me in Cherry Blossoms, and you know you are about to embark on a delicious journey of juxtapositions. Eric Braman's debut is a captivating compilation of magnificent imagery that stimulates each one the reader's senses with such vividness. From the hot sands beneath one's feet in "Memories of Cool Waters" to the gravity of falling dirt in "Show Me Your Sadness" to the flavors in "Pomegranate Vodka," this book reserves a piece of courageous relatability for every reader.  After all, the collection reminds us, "it took courage to arrive / it will take courage to depart."

— Diana Ayah Alkhouli, author of Oceans & Flames and Contortionist Tongue

There is such wild beauty in Eric Braman's debut collection of poems Bury Me in Cherry Blossoms. Reading it, you will feel as though you've wandered into someplace untouched, are witnessing some creature—exotic, almost endangered—show you around its natural habitat as though it had always been expecting you. Braman's poetry is chameleon—one minute a salve for wounds, the next a hammer to both build and break, and after that a yapping puppy wanting to play. Let yourself be healed. Let yourself be broken. Let yourself know unconditional love of this poet scratching at your door.

— Eric Morago, author of Feasting on Sky and publisher of Moon Tide Press