You and I,
with no suitcase, no ticket, and no way back,
will carry a shining leaf
to the center of the earth after
the last tree is gone.
Poet & Novelist
A Tree Becomes a Room
FEATURED
Winner of the 28th Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize, selected by Danusha Lemeris.
📍 Excelsior Bay Books
Excelsior, MN
952-401-0932
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📍 Magers & Quinn
Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
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Poetry
“Practically every poem attracts with the tenseness of its lines and the sparks flying as one unexpected image knocks against another.”
—Choice
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
“White’s poems are a tour de force of visionary language.”
—Bloomsbury Review
“…magic that illuminates life’s darker side.”
—Library Journal
“He recalls for a us a time when there was no separation between sadness and euphoria.”
—Harvard Book Review
“His language isn’t
afraid to move us with the beauty of words.”
—Another Chicago Magazine
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Fiction
“J.P. White writes with a poet's wisdom about the human heart and our need for justice, and if that fails us, as it often does, our more compelling need for love.”
—Jonis Agee, author of The River Wife
“White’s poems bring us closer to understanding our need to search for daily truths through poetry.”
—Bloomsbury Review
