Everything You Love Is New

Ralph Earle’s new collection of poems explores a spectrum of social and personal issues that includes family crisis, subsequent healing, and celebrations of cherished people and moments that leave a lasting impact. The poems oscillate between indignation, reverence, and hope, all tempered by the wit inherent in life’s unpredictable journey.

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What they are saying

These poems are meditations composed of spiritual insights that emerge from Ralph Earle’s close observation of everyday events, the voices of those who’ve come before, and encounters with the strange and inexplicable nature of the world. Each poem is voiced with an innocent wisdom and subtle humor constructed from his personal fears, social-political perspectives, and reflections on the natural world.

—Chapman Hood Frazier
author of The Lost Books of the Bestiary

Ralph Earle’s poetry is like a breeze wafting through a screen door in spring, companionable, comforting, trusting and true. You can feel safe here with these poems, safe enough to leave your front door open and to let them come into your life, mind, and heart.

—Paul Jones
author of Something Wonderful

In poems that dazzle with surprising metaphors, precise language and close observations of nature, Earle relates his journey as son, brother, husband, father, grandfather and seeker of the Absolute.

—Janis Harrington
author of How to Cut a Woman in Half

More about the book

The four sections of Everything You Love Is New combine to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of the individual in the world.

Bring Me Back the Change ranges widely across our society—hopeful, reverent, indignant, but ever tempered by the humor and absurdity of this strange journey we find ourselves on.

Cold Days in Eden and Enter the Weather are mirror images: the first touches on the way that character, upbringing, and circumstances can lead to a shattering family crisis, while the second reflects the consolation and healing that can follow such a crisis.

A Dream Nobody Chose is elegiac, expressing the inevitable loss of who and what we care most deeply about, even while celebrating the very things we must let go of.