Ravenous Bliss: new & selected love poems

by James Bertolino, Lana Hechtman Ayers (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936657544
Publisher:	Moonpath Press
Publication date:	03/01/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

James Bertolino's poetry has received recognition through a Book-of-the-Month Club Poetry Fellowship,
the Discovery Award, a National Endowment for the
Arts fellowship, two Quarterly Review of Literature book publication awards, the Connecticut College
Contemporary American Poetry Archive and, in 2007,
the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize for Washington State
Poets. His 27 poetry collections have been published by
21 presses in nine states, and Ravenous Bliss: New and
Selected Love Poems is his twelfth full volume.

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher