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This collection of poems by James Tipton contains a Foreward by Isabele Allende. Each poem testifies tothe bedrock of Tipton's imagination and taken together, the poes are extravagant yet earthy, tender yet passionate, wild yet intimate, crazy yet hopeful. It is a poetry of transformations, an invocation of exuberant vitality.

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James Tipton is the world's preeminent surrealist beekeeper. At his home on a high mesa near Grand Junction, Colorado, he bottles 10,000 pounds of honey each year and writes poetry in the tradition of Neruda, Breton, Blake and Bly. His work appears in various anthologies and other works, most recently "Aprodite" by Isabel Allende. He has been published in "The Nation," "South Dakota Review", "Esquire" and "The American Literary Review".
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"His poetry sings soft but strong...every woman would love to be loved the way Tipton loves." -- Michelle Lovric

"Tiptons poems are a great celebration -- lovely & lush" Conrad Hilberry "His poetry sings soft but strong...every woman would love to be loved the way Tipton loves." -- Michelle Lovric "Truly a pure and beautiful voice, a light...what new ways he shows the soul, just when we think it had no place else to go." -- Grace Cavalieri -- Publisher Comments

"Truly a pure and beautiful voice, a light...what new ways he shows the soul, just when we think it had no place else to go." -- Grace Cavalieri

After Years Of Listening
All God's Evenings Got Wings
Any Poem
Being Stubborn
A Blizzard Is Flying Around The House
The Brain Washes Ashore, A Curdled Nautilus
The Day I Was Born Was The Day
Do Not Look For Me Then, In The Tiny Dust
First, When She Was Talking, I Heard No Sound
The God We Pray To When We Think We Pray
Her Body Stuck Out Like A Thumb
I Have Worked Hard To Make The World Feel Solid
I Want To Love You With Every Piece Of This Body
I Want To Speak With The Blood That Lies Down
I Wanted You In The Kitchen Of My Heart
I Watched At Low Tide Your Breast Rise
In The Higher Saloons Of Canyons And Oats
In This Solitude Which Is Never Really Solitude
In Towns Made Of Steel
It Is True That I Lack Focus
Like Some Bituminous And Temporary Delight
Like The Tongue Of A Long Lizard
Meaning Still Escapes Me Like The Brain
On This High Mesa I Keep A Low Profile
One Night I Picked Up In A Bar
Out Of The Blue Breath Of God
People Always Think I Suffer
The Poem Rises Up
A Shuddering Geography Pulls The Dead Sentences
So Many Times I Have Felt The Sea Rising
Some Days I Wake Up Walking Over The Desert
Sometimes The Fragrance Of Honey And Beeswax
A Stray God, Or A Thump In The Night
There Are Rivers Of Oranges
These Awkward Efforts To Be Alive
This Story Is About Fire And Destruction
Those Evenings When All Of God's Conundruns
Through Some Ill-fitting Time And Space
Watching Episodes Of 'unsolved Mysteries'
What Brilliant Dementia Drives Me
What If The Poem Were A Shout
What If, When We Held Each Other
What Is The State Of Poetry?
What Is This Place I Have Come To?
When All The Therapists Of Dung Are Gathered
When I First Came Into This Desert Space
When I Stand Very Still
Who Are You, Goddess Of The Green Night
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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