Patrice Pinette received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In the Connections Program of New Hampshire Humanities, she facilitates book discussions with adult learners of English from all over the world. She also leads poetry workshops in the Transdisciplinary Studies in Healing Education program at Antioch University New England, and Center for Anthroposophy’s Renewal Courses. Patrice’s poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts, Touchstone Journal, Poet Showcase: An Anthology of New Hampshire Poets, Allegro Poetry Journal, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

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As primal and fearless as myth, or a great blue heron touching down in a snowstorm in Manhattan, the “strange bird” of this book perches at the edge of Eden, winging to us as if out of memory or the voice in the wilderness we dream has awakened us. Patrice Pinette’s poems, glowing and unholdable as a child’s chased bubbles, limn the mystical both in the ineffable and the domestic. As laden with questions as a “deluge of grief” with tears or peonies with petals, they bow down while we are uplifted, filling with hope and hunger—not so much for answers as for more of the dangerous, playful, momentary encounters with wonder we’re reminded of. Elemental as rain, as magnolias, as love, the color blue, or happiness, these poems transport us as we watch them soar, line by line “dazzling the ordinary.”

Alice B Fogel, New Hampshire Poet Laureate Emerita Author of Falsework