Precinct Kali & The Gertrude Spicer Story

Literature & Fiction

Bertolino, James

Poetry

New Rivers Press

Terminal placebos (A New Rivers Press chapbook)

distributed by Serendipity Books

New and Selected Poems

Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Finding Water, Holding Stone

WordTech Communications LLC

“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. These love poems ‘…draw nectar/ from the fractures….’ They join ‘…all small and large lives with what lifts/ us toward the sun….’ What a boon to have Bertolino’s love poems—both selected and new—in this one luminous collection.” ~ Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate and author of Understory

Ravenous Bliss: new & selected love poems

Moonpath Press

Praise for Ravenous Bliss: New and Selected Love Poems "Beginning with 'the whirr of the sewing machine' and ending with 'the shining thread to join all small and large lives, ' Ravenous Bliss is a meditation on love in its many incarnations. These poems are full of resonant, natural images and shine with James Bertolino's big open heart." Ellen Bass, author of Mules of Love and The Human Line "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. These love poems '...draw nectar/ from the fractures....' They join '...all small and large lives with what lifts/ us toward the sun....' What a boon to have Bertolino's love poems--both selected and new--in this one luminous collection." Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate and author of Understory and The Voluptuary

poems shine close devotion's light on mystery, enigma, on any talisman cherished for meaning. Bertolino finds an object, a moment, a rich confusion and makes it useful, revelatory, and intimate. 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." -Kim Stafford, author of Singer Come from Afar and Oregon Poet Laureate Emeritus "Replete with James Bertolino's signature dazzle and scope, Sun Rising into Storm gives us poems on the move, poems making their contribution to 'the great wave of being, ' poems in which 'the life-bearing water always // finds its way.' Bertolino's work makes its way to our very core. Keeping company with him in these pages, we find that 'Columbine and rain, azalea /and sunrise, / the world reaches / with two hands, two wings' to welcome us into its embrace." -Paulann Petersen, author of One Small Sun and Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita "Bertolino's new collection is a luminous offering of meditations and reflections. In Sun Rising into Storm, we discover that ordinary life, when observed through the lens of an exceptional poet, is filled with the radiance and tumult of dawn emerging to dispel the darkness of ominous skies. Masterfully wrought, these poems impart Bertolino's thoughts with an intimacy and generosity that gives the effect of being caught eavesdropping on his mind, only to be graciously invited in to listen." -Rena Priest, American Book Award winning author of Patriarchy Blues and Washington State Poet Laureate

Sun Rising into Storm

Alfredo M. Arreguin, Artist Some of Jim Bertolino's poems have been inspired by art objects, and some of my paintings by poetry. I feel that Jim?s poems and my art come from the same source: the quest for beauty in all of nature's manifestations?a leaf, a frog, the ocean waves, a simple gesture. This pursuit is what comes to bridge the concerns of all writers and painters. I feel connected to Jim?s poems, inside them, just as I enter my paintings, lose myself inside them, and emerge renewed.

Every Wound Has A Rhythm

World Enough Writers

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