"It takes faith to coax a plant/from root to bloom" and so too, Tramontano has coaxed poems from experience of the Holocaust, from betrayal and chipped bone china, and a mother\'s failing memory. -Howard J Kogan , A Chill in the Air, Indian Summer.
This a book you will return to again and again.
Jan Tramontano is the real thing. -Cecele Allen Kraus , Tuscaloosa Bypass, Elevation of the Mundane With a sharp eye for the telling detail, Jan Tramontano\'s poetry provides an intimate, unsparing picture of life in all its deeply felt, intricately layered and compellingly told.
These haunting poems mark life\'s passage and remind us of what it truly means to be alive.
Fully accepting the pain of loss, she concludes a blanket of gloom falls/on ground frozen brown/but strivings of life still thrive .
For a lost love, she writes, I feel you in my fingertips .
She does not flinch from loss carried in our bodies, in our small touches. -Holly Wren Spaulding , Familiars In The Me I Was With You , Jan Tramontano tenderly explores the precariousness of human life.
Here are poems of deep human feeling as told through the "luminous particulars," as Jane Kenyon would say: wisteria and white-capped waves and the furniture left when the family house must be sold. "It takes faith to coax a plant/from root to bloom" and so too, Tramontano has coaxed poems from experience of the Holocaust, from betrayal and chipped bone china, and a mother\'s failing memory
