Journey Bread News
At last! My new book, JOURNEY BREAD, is now available for pre-order from Broadstone Books. Be sure to use the discount code on the Broadstone site for 20% off!
https://www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/journey-bread-new-selected-poems-by-ruth-thompson
My thanks to Larry Moore and everyone at Broadstone Books, who kept the flame burning despite being hit by the Small Press Distribution disaster.
Here’s a poem from the book:
Having a Drink With My Daughter At the Casa Del Mar
She is a Renoir rising from this gilded half shell, a shining
Van Gogh sunflower, a tree full of August apricots.
She throws the banners of her laughter into the coffered ceilings
and the castle awakens. The waiters leap to serve her.
Outside the window, a Breugel: skaters and strollers and dogs
and a sun just beginning to drop over a stitched seam of surfers.
Lights go on in the fish place down on the pier, where we used to go
when she was a baby, when living in Santa Monica was cheap.
I think of that restaurant in the Trastevere, where every night
she toddled into the kitchen to visit, bright and uninhibited as a robin.
I remember my body shaking, and her crowning at last – no saintly
Botticelli with angels but black-haired and vivid and yelling like Kali.
Now I pray to the gods of fresh tablecloths, clean slates.
My sins seat themselves around the table, waiting to be served.
I haven’t begun planning launch and book events, but a few readings have already manifested – I would love to see you there! –
I haven’t begun planning launch and book events, but a few readings have already manifested – I would love to see you there! –
Sunday August 4 @ 12 noon PST – Slow Lightning/Heat Lightning reading series (Zoom)
Saturday September 21 from 2 pm – 5 pm EST – Poets House NYC – Broadstone Books 21st anniversary group reading
Tuesday November 19 @ 7 pm CST – Black Dog Poetry (Zoom)
I’m grateful to all of you who have accompanied me on this journey (of poetry and of life). I hope you will continue.
Ruth