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COMING MAY 1, 2026! Pre-order with discount code “PILGRIM” at checkout for free US shipping, now through April 30th.
With “Auguries of smoke and wind,” this astonishing book beseeches the pilgrim, “Do not fly. Do not wander. Bend/ to what asks. There is a door. The door is you. The handle is not. Hard to grasp.” Such gnomic wisdom shines throughout the entire collection, one that never takes the easy way out. This quiet work demands we pause, consider, and seek to live, knowing that no matter “what stings us,” still, “we are the forest that shines/in rain.” Thus, we do not need to “fear the ache,” but can turn into wind “with its/ unknowing appetite,” to “weave a language” and a life, all our own. Buy this gorgeous book. Let it be a guide for your own pilgrimage. Trust that you are in the hands of a master, who wants us all to know, “We are also the snow/ That falls like song/ Over everything.”
—Betsy Johnson
ISBN 979-8-9948864-0-3
2026$18.95Peter Grandbois is the author of sixteen books, the most recent of which is the novel/novella pairing, Cat People and Dream Memories of the Fifty Foot Woman. He is poetry editor at Boulevard and teaches at Denison University in Ohio. His website is www.petergrandbois.com.
COMING MAY 1, 2026! Pre-order with discount code “PILGRIM” at checkout for free US shipping, now through April 30th.
With “Auguries of smoke and wind,” this astonishing book beseeches the pilgrim, “Do not fly. Do not wander. Bend/ to what asks. There is a door. The door is you. The handle is not. Hard to grasp.” Such gnomic wisdom shines throughout the entire collection, one that never takes the easy way out. This quiet work demands we pause, consider, and seek to live, knowing that no matter “what stings us,” still, “we are the forest that shines/in rain.” Thus, we do not need to “fear the ache,” but can turn into wind “with its/ unknowing appetite,” to “weave a language” and a life, all our own. Buy this gorgeous book. Let it be a guide for your own pilgrimage. Trust that you are in the hands of a master, who wants us all to know, “We are also the snow/ That falls like song/ Over everything.”
—Betsy Johnson
ISBN 979-8-9948864-0-3
2026$18.95Peter Grandbois is the author of sixteen books, the most recent of which is the novel/novella pairing, Cat People and Dream Memories of the Fifty Foot Woman. He is poetry editor at Boulevard and teaches at Denison University in Ohio. His website is www.petergrandbois.com.
