JOURNEY BREAD: New & Selected Poems by Ruth Thompson

Publication Date: August 1, 2024
Paperback, 128 pages
ISBN: 978-1-956782-77-6

JOURNEY BREAD is a wide-ranging retrospective – fierce, joyous, witty, and radiant – by a master of voice and craft. Like the journey cake carried through the mountains by the poet’s forebears, it is also waybread, lembas, giving heart in dark times. And it is the viaticum, the bread on the tongue of the dying, as the poet begins the last stage of her journey with a final letting go of what has been, to make space for whatever is to come.

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This is a wonderful book! – Frank X Gaspar

Aliveness … in all its generous and difficult graces. – Diane Gillaim

Wrong turns, demon wrestling, love lost and found, and the ongoing revelation of belonging to the natural world. – George Ella Lyon

A radical book!
A master poet! – Philiip Terman