Letters From a Stranger Poems

James Tipton is the world's preeminent surrealist beekeeper. At his home on a high mesa near Grand Junction, Colorado, he bottles 10,000 pounds of honey each year, and writes poetry in the tradition of Neruda, Vallejo, Breton, Blake, and Robert Bly, extending the vision of a world that is simultaneously real and magical.

James Tipton is widely published, including credits in The Nation, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Greensboro Review, Esquire, Field, and American Literary Review; and also in various anthologies and other works, most recently Aphrodite, by Isabel Allende (1998), and Bleeding Hearts, edited by Michelle Lovric (1998). He is currently at work on two other volumes of poetry, The Alphabet of Longing and No Thoroughfare Canyon.

Forword	p. xiii

Those Evenings When All of God's Conundrums	p. 3
Some Days I Wake Up Walking Over the Desert	p. 6
Out of the Blue Breath of God	p. 7
It Is True That I Lack Focus	p. 10
The Poem Rises Up	p. 12
I Want to Speak with the Blood that Lies Down	p. 14
After Years of Listening	p. 17
So Many Times I Have Felt the Sea Rising	p. 18
Being Stubborn	p. 19
I Want to Love You With Every Piece of This Body	p. 20
What If the Poem Was a Shout	p. 21
What Is the State of Poetry?	p. 23
Any Poem	p. 25
There Are Rivers of Oranges	p. 27

In the Higher Saloons of Canyons and Oats	p. 31
The Brain Washes Ashore, A Curdled Nautilus	p. 33
A Shuddering Geography Pulls the Dead Sentences	p. 35
First, When She Was Talking I Heard No Sound	p. 36
A Stray God, or a Thump in the Night	p. 37
I Watched at Low Tide Your Breasts Rise	p. 38
When I Stand Very Still	p. 40
I Wanted You in the Kitchen of My Heart	p. 41
A Blizzard is Flying Around the House	p. 42
Her Body Stuck Out Like a Thumb	p. 44
In Towns Made of Steel	p. 46
Like Some Bituminous and Temporary Delight	p. 48
What Brilliant Dementia Drives Me	p. 49
One Night I Picked Up in a Bar	p. 50
These Awkward Efforts to Be Alive	p. 51

What Is This Place I Have Come To?	p. 55
Who Are You, Goddess of the Green Night	p. 56
The Day I Was Born Was the Day	p. 58
What If, When We Held Each Other	p. 60
Do Not Look for Me Then, in the Tiny Dust	p. 61
People Always Think I Suffer	p. 63
When I First Came Into This Desert Space	p. 64
Sometimes the Fragrance of Honey and Beeswax	p. 65
Meaning Still Escapes Me, Like the Brain	p. 66
Watching Episodes of "Unsolved Mysteries"	p. 67
The God We Pray to When We Think We Pray	p. 68
Like the Tongue of a Long Lizard	p. 70
I Have Worked Hard to Make the World Feel Solid	p. 72
In This Solitude Which is Never Really Solitude	p. 73
This Story Is About Fire and Destruction	p. 75
All God's Evenings Got Wings	p. 78
Through Some Ill-Fitting Time and Space	p. 79
When All the Therapists of Dung are Gathered	p. 81
On This High Mesa I Keep a Low Profile	p. 82
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