Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer starts this poetry collection with an explanation of what inspired it. I can’t say I’ve read or heard an explanation quite like it. Her father, on his deathbed, “his eyes open but unseeing,” said a phrase, an incomplete sentence: “From our birth…to our death…the wonderment.”
In other words, all of it, all of life, is full of wonder. The great mountain vistas. The ocean sunsets. A baby’s laugh. But also, the unexpected death, the illness, the hard times, grief. All of it contains a sense of wonder. Visiting the place where her son died, which she wrote about in her previous collection, The Unfolding, and his grave.
In The Wonderment: Poems, published today, Trommer writes about some of the things that fill her with wonder.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
Wild Blackberries – poem by David Whyte.
“A Dirge,” poem by Christina Rossetti – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
When an East Cast Girl Sees Saguaros –poem by Aberdeen Livingstone at Rabbit Room Poetry.
Winners of Third Annual First Things Poetry Prize – First Things Magazine.
