"For more than four decades, James Bertolino has been writing love poems, poems of bliss so musical and urgent, so nuanced and bold, they're ravenously ecstatic." Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate and author of Understory
Read this book to savor his generous mind embracing the disparate offerings of daily life, and to find in your own circumference of attention a chance for small and precious miracles.
Anita K. Boyle is a poet daring to the rigors of describing the indescribable.
Boyle's poetry pairs the vast with the minute, coaxing us along the 'trail to the other side of the mountain.'" -Nancy Canyon, author of Celia's Heaven "Anita K. Boyle's lyrical poems, 'soak up the earth's sweet music in the afterlight.
"I've never read anything remotely like The Slow Subtraction: A.L.S., Joseph Powell's deeply loving collection that tracks how it is to lose the beloved one day at a time.
No matter what scars you may carry, or what stress you bring home from your days, this collection will be a shawl to warm you, an arm around your shoulders, an encouragement, a balm." --Ingrid Wendt, author of Evensong and Surgeonfish
In Impossible Lessons Jennifer Bullis entwines a Stevens like wit and attention to the music of words with a contemplative eye towards both nature and family.
Reading this book, I feel as if I'm being skillfully guided by someone who knows art and, perhaps more vividly, believes in how art makes our lives more resonant-sometimes more pleasantly aware, sometimes more susceptible to pain, but ...