Sun Rising into Storm

poems shine close devotions light on mystery enigma on any talisman cherished for meaning. Bertolino finds an object a moment a richconfusion and makes it useful revelatory and intimate. Read this book to savor his generous mind embracing the disparate offerings of daily life and to find in your own circumference of attention a chance for small and precious miracles.-Kim Stafford author of Singer Come from Afar and Oregon Poet Laureate EmeritusReplete with James Bertolinos signature dazzle and scope Sun Rising into Storm gives us poems on the move poems making their contributionto the great wave of being poems in which the life-bearing water always // finds its way. Bertolinos work makes its way to our very core.Keeping company with him in these pages we find that Columbine and rain azalea /and sunrise / the world reaches / with two hands two wings to welcome us into its embrace.-Paulann Petersen author of One Small Sun and Oregon Poet Laureate EmeritaBertolinos new collection is a luminous offering of meditations and reflections. In Sun Rising into Storm we discover that ordinary life whenobserved through the lens of an exceptional poet is filled with the radiance and tumult of dawn emerging to dispel the darkness of ominousskies. Masterfully wrought these poems impart Bertolinos thoughts with an intimacy and generosity that gives the effect of being caught eavesdropping on his mind only to be graciously invited in to listen.-Rena Priest American Book Award winning author of Patriarchy Blues and Washington State Poet Laureate