Jeanie's Books and Postcards
Jeanie's newest book from Red Bird Chapbooks, dear little fist.
44 pages
8.5" x 5.5" single signature with hand sewn binding.
Published February 2018, $12
Here's what the publisher had to say about this chapbook:
"In dear little fist, Tomasko crafts a collection that mirrors the many ways a heart can beat, sometimes frantic, sometimes steady, and sometimes strikingly quiet. Moving from poignant to funny and back and dealing with a palpable sense of angst connected to the questions of what it means when you can't trust your heart, Tomasko delivers moments of softness, contemplation, and wanting that resound in rhythms reflecting arrhythmia. The next moment is not always what you expect, but you must carry on with it and follow where they lead."
Dovetail
Bent Paddle Press, 2017, 25 pp., $12.
Another poetry / artwork Collaboration between Jeanie & Sharon Auberle. The two exchanged drawings and then wrote poems to each other's art. A superb collaboration!
Read some poems and see some of the artwork here.
Small Towns Along the Coast
Dancing Girl Press, 2017, 36 pp., $7.
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Another poetry/story hybrid akin to (Prologue)...see below.
Read some poems here.
The Collect of the Day
Bent Paddle Press, 2017, 30 pp., $12.
Limited edition of 126 hand sewn chapbooks with French covers.
A blend of grief and beauty and prayer and hope with a touch of the quirky thrown in.
Read some poems here.
Violet Hours
Taraxia Press, 2016, 40 pp., $13. Limited edition of 100 hand sewn chapbooks with French covers.
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In these poems, meet Violet, a disquieting little girl who investigates her surroundings with a clinical eye for the morbid and bizarre.
"I’ve loved Violet for years, since reading her first poems. She makes jewelry from dead bugs. Puts chicken hearts in classmates’ valentines. In a perfect world, her universe is drawn by Edward Gorey. She’s like the little girl from The Addams Family—only cooler. Her soundtrack is the stillness after drowning. When Violet’s happiest, her eyes turn black."
—Michael Kriesel
Winner of North American Review’s 2015 Hearst Award
Read some poems here.
(Prologue)
Concrete Wolf, 2015, 61 p. $10.
A poetry / story hybrid thingy with artwork by Judith Bellinghausen Mayer. Winner of the 2013 Concrete Wolf Editor's Choice award.
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Read some poems here.
Sharp as Want
Little Eagle Press, 2011, 110 p. $15
A Poetry / Artwork Collaboration: Poetry by Jeanie Tomasko & Artwork by Sharon Auberle.
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"...there’s an involvement with nature, a physical, sensory, spiritual involvement ... with the woods and the wind, the birds, the snow, the rivers, the hidden paths..."
—Bruce Hodder(full review).
"When I began the press a few years ago, my goal was to publish books that married verbal and visual art, to treat both forms with equal respect, and certainly not to to have the art in a book to simply illustrate, but rather, to take the reader/viewer to a place of delicate balance that can only happen, I believe, in that space between two complimentary works. This goal has never been better achieved than it is in Sharp as Want, the work of two brilliant women at the top of their game."
—Ralph Murre, Founder/ Publisher of Little Eagle Press. (full review).
Read some poems here.
Tricks of Light
Parallel Press, 2011, 46 p. $10.
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"Her poems puncture the skin with poignancy yet leave one with a sense of gratitude for simply being alive. The skin heals over."
—Hope McLeod (full review).
"In Jeanie Tomasko’s chapbook Tricks of Light, intangibles like love, longing, and spirituality are borne on the wings of birds and bees and illuminated by "'the palest of light / when the nudge from sleep / comes from quiet things, / beckons you out the door, / down the path, / singing songs you used to know.'"
—Publishers note (full review).
Read some poems here.
Postcards from France
A Jeanie Tomasko / Sharon Auberle collaboration
Here's the story: Jeanie stumbled on a book of art by the French painter Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) in a used book store. Perusing the book, she began writing ekphrastic poems based on Dufy's paintings (each poem's title is also the title of the painting it was inspired by). "I should call this series 'Postcards from France,'" she thought. Then thought, "or, just make postcards!" She teamed up with Door County poet/artist Sharon Auberle who looked at Jeanie's poems and paired them with her art. Steve Tomasko designed the cards and voilá — Postcards from France!
Well, OK, they're not really from France, but they are postcards!
Click on each card for a larger view. Postcards are 4.25" x 6" and printed on postcard stock. $1 each.
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