Books and Recording by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
The Less I Hold
(Turkey Buzzard Press, 2012)
The Less I Hold straddles two worlds—one of
to-do lists and one that wrestles with the
divine. While doing dishes, putting the kids
to bed, skiing or peeling pears, Rosemerry
Wahtola Trommer finds the poetry in the act
and shares it with the reader in what she
calls “the big conversation,” the place
where poetry meets the real world.
The book, featuring a foreword by Veronica
Patterson, is poetry that does not tie
things up neatly—poetry that is truer to the
messiness in our lives. Poetry that is
curious. Poems that help us unlearn.
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Praise for The Less I Hold:
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer dances in the
inexhaustible now, and in several worlds at
once. With all of her finely tuned senses
very much alive, the beat she dances to is
always her own sweet heart. Although very
contemporary, her dazzling syntax, her
ability to express complex emotions in such
profound simplicity, put her in the company
of poets like Emily Dickinson and Gerard
Manley Hopkins as well as the ancient poets
of China and Japan. I love her poetry.
—James Tipton, Letters to a Stranger, Proposing to the Woman
in the Rearview Mirror
Rosemerry is always looking for the threads
from the intimate to the transcendent,
always watching her breath for the molecules
of air also breathed by Neruda, by
Dickinson, by cummings, and also by the
reader. These poems are full of the restless
energy needed to caress a child or a spouse
in the one moment, and in the next to expand
into the spheres of the night sky.
—Uche Ogbuji, editor at Kin Poetry Journal and The Nervous
Breakdown
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poems are high
mountain orchard windsong, the waft of
apricot blossom on the cheek, brook ripple
in
the ear. She never fails to bring sensual
joy and rich music. Every poem is a love
song.
—David Lee, A Legacy of Shadows
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Rosemerry Wahtola
Trommer
P.O. Box 86 Placerville, Colorado 81430
wordwoman@rosemerry.com
Phone: 970-728-0399
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