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The Sea Always Near: new poems    
ISBN: 978-0982730300, 2010 Paperback 76 pages  Order The Sea Always Near from Amazon.com

In The Sea Always Near, Warren’s poems float above the mesas of Northern New Mexico while also sinking themselves into the problems, and beauty, of the whole planet—from China and Japan back to Cerro Pedernal in New Mexico then to the red dirt and Osage Hills of Oklahoma.

Warren is the astronomer of not only the night sky, but also of the quiet reaches and reflected starlight of the New Mexican landscape.  He reminds us we are Star Stuff.  But he’s also a Paleontologist, with a sharp eye on the bones and ancient splendors of the world.

These wonderful poems in which “…grace has turned every corner…” and “[t]he whiteness of the page / goes on forever” speak to us in needed ways that so much contemporary poetry does not. 
      —Nathan L. Brown, author of Two Tables Over, winner of the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry

I became an instant fan of Stewart Warren when we crossed paths at the glorious Sparrows Festivals in Salida, Colorado. Not just the poems but the guy himself. Stewart is the archetypal boy-next-door - that is of course if you happen to live in the Southwest and your neighborhood is notable for fine writers and talented artists. I love his friendliness, his willingness to build community wherever he settles, and the way he charms good poetry out of those of us who write with him (great workshops!) He sets the bar higher then lends us all a step up. Needless to say, this newest collection is a must read.
      —Dale Harris, Malpais Review poetry editor, and founder of the Poets and Writers Picnic / Sunflower Writers Workshops

Essence: contemplations in image and word   Order Essence from Amazon.com
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ISBN: 978-1-4490-7825-6, 2010 Paperback: 76 pages
photographer Corinna Stoeffl and writer Stewart S. Warren

Essence is a well-named book.  It invites the reader/viewer to address the very essence of the human condition through striking yet subtle and provocative photos and poetry in conversation with each other.  Author and pastor, Eugene Peterson,  said that a poet’s work is always a conversation that is saying something in relationship.  This book is such a dialogue. Stoeffl and Warren’s work is meditative in itself and is a valuable instrument for reflection and journaling.  Each one of Stoeffl’s photos is worth at least the proverbial 1000 words and Warren’s two to three stanza poems are as simple as they are profound, direct without being directive.

      —Ron Wooten-Green, Las Vegas, New Mexico
      When the Dying Speak (Loyola Press); A Fine Line of Distinction (PublishAmerica);
      Journaling Through Life (in progress)

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In this substantial collection, Stewart Warren proves himself to be a traveling poet of northern New Mexico, not a tourist but a pilgrim who returns again and again to people, place, and land. The setting can be as charged as the Santuario de Chimayo or as intimate as an old car.

But this world is animate—the frost acts like a lively bride and a collapsing house still offers shelter. There are pure lyrics here, and tiny anecdotal prose pieces reminiscent of Jim Sagel. To read these poems is to fall in love again with language and northern New Mexico.
      —Miriam Sagan, author of MAP OF THE LOST (UNM Press)

Reading Stewart Warren’s new book, The Song of It, I suddenly realized how thirsty I have been! I was indeed in the presence of poetry, magnificent poetry (and prose) that comes out of the wild heart of the world—a world which we can only enter as lovers, and with “our hats in our hands,” a world that curls itself around us, but that we rarely see. Those moments when you do wake to it, Warren assures us, “You are standing/in the center of time/and everything you touch/will take you home.”
      —James Tipton, author of Letters from a Stranger and All the Horses of Heaven

Stewart Warren’s Second Light, which in the Diné tradition is one of three stages of sunrise, sparkles with just that kind of illumination. “Like the elm,” he writes, “my heart beats in many places.” In a city diner or on Colfax Avenue, on a canyon road in Norteño or by a waterfall where mountains are “wrapped to the waist in clouds,” his clear-eyed and love-haunted look brings out the life inside of lives to which he says yes, “and yes and yes again.”
      —Bob King, Colorado Poets Center

Stewart S. Warren writes, in his new book of poems, "In whatever direction you face me/ that also will I love."  This ability to capture our consideration in these percipient poems is Stewart's gift to us.  As I read Stewart's poems, I see more of the world than I imagined, and I find more in my life than was there before. 
      —Art Washburn, author of Shadow-maker

The Weight of Dusk is a lyrical journey of discovery, love, innocence lost, wisdom glimpsed and wisdom gained in fitful starts and reverses.  These narrative poems may focus on the life of one man and its ordinary triumphs and tragedies, but in them Warren shows how large and universal “one small life” can be.  When you read these poems, you may well find your own life in them, looking back at you.
      —Michael Adams, Award winning poet, author of Broken Hand and Steel Valley; member of The Free Radical Railroad

From the first poem to the last little phrase, "The miracle, of course, is that we are here," we are in the good company of poems that are milagros indeed, enviro-personal, and heart-thrown. This work is new to me and welcome aboard my psyche, and, I trust, yours as well.
      —Joan Logghe, author, editor, activist, and Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico

Shape of a Hill: poetry, prose poetry

"Poetry with intelligence, hard-won wisdom, humor and humanity. Stewart S. Warren's long awaited collection is an invitation to see ourselves 'in the shiny mud,' to lean into one another, to get down on our knees and to enter the house of experience."
      —Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of If You Listen and Insatiable

"Warren is a writer who sees deep into the heart of this world, a writer whose voice bounces off canyon walls and travels along rivers to their desert ends.  One can be sure that the echo of this poet's voice will always come back to the reader with clear, authentic and beautiful tones. It would seem that any moment or encounter is reason enough for Warren to take pen to paper and write heartfelt poems that linger with a reader the way all good art should.

Early in this collection Warren writes 'Everything has become an instrument.'  Perhaps there is no better description of these poems, these poems which echo through mountain ranges, New Mexican villages, the many colored skins of the earth and into flight with birds and then settle so nicely back down to earth with her people and their history.  Warren is a lover of all that the earth contains or lets go and these poems reflect that love."
      —Aaron A. Abeyta, author of Colcha and As Orion Falls 
 

  

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