<p><em>Paleotempestology</em>, as no one would know, is the study of storms and the central theme rippled throughout Bertha Isabel Crombet&rsquo;s debut collection. Beginning, very literally, with a poem titled &ldquo;Waiting for Hurricane Irma&rdquo; in which she wishes for a &ldquo;fresh disaster to eclipse [her] old one&rdquo;, she sets the precedent for the entire book, which goes on to explore emotional turbulence in it&rsquo;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.</p>