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Overview
Naked for Tea, a finalist in the Able Muse Book Award, is a uniquely uplifting and inspirational collection. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poems are at times humorously surreal, at times touchingly real, as they explore the ways in which our own brokenness can open us to new possibilities in a beautifully imperfect world. Naked for Tea proves that poems that are disarmingly witty on the surface can have surprising depths of wisdom. This is a collection not to be missed.
PRAISE FOR NAKED FOR TEA
Most anyone can make lemonade out of lemons. However, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's welcoming voice, receptive heart, artistic mastery, and empathic vision become an alchemy of being. Out of mudslides, misunderstandings, the exploits of Wild Rose, deep loss, and chocolate cake that sinks in the center, she makes courage, care, joy, and compassion. When "what's the use" breaks down the back door, she is there, her great good soul encouraging us to sigh, laugh, renew our attention, and feel grateful for and delighted by any cake that sinks in the center. -- Jack Ridl, author of Practicing to Walk Like a Heron and Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
Heart-thawingly honest, deliriously sexy, and compassionate down to the fingertips. A book of kindness and bewilderment and delight from one of our best poets. -- Teddy Macker, author of This World
There is still rich ore in the Colorado San Juans. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a treasure. In an era of seeming nonstop, subject-matterless, first person mirror dancing at the Temple of Narcissus incomprehension, it is a delight to find a poet who can tell a crackling story laced with gorgeous imagery and euphony that will appeal to the ancient seats of learning: the heart, belly, and brain. These are poems Sappho and Horace would love: they delight and instruct. They can be read and sung, and they will echo from the proverbial Colorado mountaintops through the archetypal red rock canyons of your mind. Prepare thyself to be smitten and to fall in love. -- David Lee, Utah State Poet Laureate emeritus, author of Last Call and A Legacy of Shadows
Reading Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is to float upon a never-ending waterfall of wonder . . . Pay attention. The elegance of her simplicity will blind you to her mastery. Then, she will let you fall, head over heels, in Love. With everything. -- Wayne Muller (from the foreword), author of Sabbath and Legacy of the Heart
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in southwest Colorado and is the author of eleven collections of poetry. Her poems have appeared in O Magazine, Rattle.com, TEDx, in back alleys, on A Prairie Home Companion, and on river rocks she leaves around town. She's taught poetry for Think 360, Craig Hospital, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Weehawken Creative Arts, Camp Coca-Cola, meditation retreats, twelve-step recovery programs, hospice, and many other organizations. She's won the Fischer Prize, Rattle's Ekphrastic Challenge, the Dwell Press Solstice Prize, the Writer's Studio Literary Contest, and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. As Colorado's Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017), she created and curates Heard of Poets, an interactive poetry map. She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison. Since 2006, she's written a poem a day. One-word mantra: Adjust. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the 2017 Able Muse Book Award.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781773490168 |
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| Publisher: | Able Muse Press |
| Publication date: | 07/09/2018 |
| Pages: | 136 |
| Sales rank: | 234,430 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.32(d) |
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Table of Contents
vi Acknowledgments
ix Foreword
Feeding Some Deeper Hunger
5 After the Bear Incident
6 Though It Is Tough to Choose It
8 Cruciferous
9 The Fourteenth Way of Looking at a Blackbird
10 That’s Right
11 The Art of Saying Yes
13 Growing Orbits
14 Given a Window
15 After My Friend Phyllis Shows Me the New York Times Obituary Headline:“Lou Michaels, All-Purpose Player, Dies at 80, Missed Kicks in ’69 Super Bowl”
17 Wild Rose Steps In at the Circus
18 With Red Thread
20 Uprising
22 Inner Mary and Martha
23 Going Camping with Audrey Hepburn
25 Perhaps It Would Eventually Erode, But . . .
27 Trusting Ludwig
29 Divining
30 Once Upon
32 Latin 101
34 Dreaming the Apocalypse
36 Quantum
Another Invisible Road
39 Cut Deep
40 Poem Not Really about Leaves
41 Gretel Explains Herself
42 United
44 The Practice
45 One Definition of Faith
46 We Do It Until We Don’t
48 Come, Wind
49 Wild Rose Goes for a Drive with God
50 Joyful, Joyful
52 Gift
53 How It Might Continue
54 Another Invisible Road
58 Inc Lak Keig
59 Vivian Learns to Ride a Bike
61 It Won’t Make the News
63 How It Is
64 Not Only with Matches
65 Waiting
67 Story Problem
69 Without a Doubt
71 Crossing the Line
Lost in the Desert
75 What Difference Does It Make?
77 At the Border
79 Morning Commute
80 The Precious Matter of Love
82 Note to Self above the Paradox Valley
84 Wild Rose Chooses a Tail
85 After Many Attempts
86 Butterfly Effect
87 When the Counselor at the Sex for Parents Talk Asked Us What We Wished Someone Had Told Us about Sex When We Were Younger, I Remember
89 Lots of Honey
90 Encounter
92 Positively
94 Gas Station Eucharist
95 A Brief Détente
97 Picking Up a Hitchhiker in May
99 What Icarus Knew
100 Dear Erik Satie,
101 As the Broken Do
103 The Tiger Comes to Visit the Hunter
104 What She Really Wants
105 One Morning
107 Autumnal
108 Years Later, I Remember What He Taught Us
109 How It Feels
110 How It Goes On
113 Notes