Richard Jarrette is author of Beso the Donkey (Michigan State University Press, 2010)—Gold Medal winner for Poetry Midwest Independent Publishers Association 2011, A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances (Green Writers Press, 2015), The Beatitudes of Ekaterina (Green Writers Press, 2017). He is Poetry Columnist for VOICE Magazine of Santa Barbara and his books have been endorsed by W.S.Merwin, Jane Hirshfield, Joseph Stroud, Sam Hamill, and others. He lives semi-reclusively in the Central Coast area of California and is far into his next poetry collection, It Is Never Finished, inspired by the ancient Chinese poets who named names, praised, and preserved.
This profound, grave, and original book investigates all being, and
all attention, through one scarred, silent, four-footed master of
the pasture. Richard Jarrette's Beso will, I predict, take his
place beside his fellow immortals--Jammes', Jimenez' and
Nasruddin's own donkeys, E.B. White's pig, Christopher Smart's cat,
Umberto Saba's goat...yet like any living creation, Beso stands
also alone, unlike anything but himself. Simply and without
reservation, from first page to last, I am entirely taken and
altered by these spare, wise, hauntingly conceived, brilliantly
crafted poems. -- Jane Hirshfield
Richard Jarrette's voice is unique. I don't know anyone writing in
a manner similar to his. There are echoes of Merwin, Rumi, the
Chinese, but the texture and tone are all his own. The poems that
pre-date Beso the Donkey are building to the miracle of what he
accomplished there. But these have their own delights and
mysteries, their illuminations and wonder. There is so much
richness in his vision and a sense of the sacred along with an
accomplished grace that is rare to find these days. It is wonderful
to enter these poems. -- Joseph Stroud, author of Of This World:
New and Selected Poems
Richard Jarrette has once again raised the hairs on my neck and
sent a shiver down my spine with his remarkable new poems. I am
deeply moved by and grateful for his outstanding poetry. -- Sam
Hamill, author of Habitation: Collected Poems and Crossing The
Yellow River
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