14 Oct Celebrating Release of “The Unfolding,” the Latest from Rosemerry, 10/15!
Celebrate “The Unfolding,” a reading and signing with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. The event takes place Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 5:30 p.m. Doors open for music, 6 p.m.; poetry and conversation, 7 p.m. signing. Location: Telluride Arts HQ.
Collection has already become #1 new release on Amazon for poetry about grief and loss.
Between the Covers will send the book in the mail. And if people order from them before November, Rosemerry will sign copy. (Just indicate who you want it signed to in the comment section at check out.)
What does it mean to be wholeheartedly human? To meet the world nakedly with our fear and our joy, with our crippling sorrow and our ecstatic jubilance? What does it mean to belong? How do we celebrate this journey of our becoming, even in the most difficult times? Join poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer at Telluride Arts as she reads from her new collection, “The Unfolding”, released by Wildhouse Publishing on October 1.
“I didn’t realize how much I needed Rosemerry’s words to remind me of what most matters,” says Tara Brach, author of “Radical Compassion”:
“Each offering is a powerful transmission: our spirit is invited forward to cherish—praise!—both the darkness and luminosity of existence. Pure medicine for our tender, awakening hearts.”
And poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes: “I don’t know how she does it. In ‘The Unfolding,’ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer opens her arms and heart and voice so wide, everything we experience comes inside to be held, to shine.”
The book is organized around four new, nuanced words for praise that Rosemerry made up to express the complexity of experiencing simultaneous grief and joy, or verilujah: the praise that rises when we are in a state of raw, naked honesty, aligning with the vast mystery of life as it is.
Trommer, who has lived and worked in Telluride since 1994, has published over a dozen poetry collections and travels widely to perform and teach. The poems in “The Unfolding,” written after the deaths of her son and father, embody paradox.
The publisher writes: (They are ) “simultaneously somber and playful, brokenhearted and uplifting, even solemn and sexy.”
The event will also feature music. Local high school students Katie Pumayalli and Payton Miller will open the evening with a poem each. There will be snacks, refreshments for purchase, and Between the Covers will be there to sell copies of Rosemerry’s books.
“Rosemerry Trommer’s new collection of poems is saturated with dark beauty,” says Francis Weller, author of “The Wild Edge of Sorrow.” “There is an exquisite ache inside these poems, reminding us of the eternal embrace of love and loss. Trommer blesses us with what she has gleaned from her prolonged vigil in the underworld, revealing a language riddled with a vulnerability that pierces our hearts. The Unfolding breaks us open to what it means to be human, what it means to love.”
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