Poetry Books

i l l u s t r a t e d p o e t r y b o o k s

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Seed Pearls: Kauai Poems (2020)

This illustrated poetry book showcases artist Eden Orlando's experiences while living on an organic farm on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Through poetry and collage, Seed Pearls: Kauai Poems takes the reader on a visual journey of her spiritual epiphanies with nature, love, and family during her year-long stay, as well as how the island impacted her after she returned to her hometown of Venice Beach, California. You can go to blurb.com for a page preview and to purchase.

My Perfect Offering: A Novel in Poems (2021)

“The body commands you go rest after trauma.” Eden Orlando's My Perfect Offering: A Novel in Poems (2021) takes place in Ashland, Oregon, and sweeps through the traumas of estrangement from family, pregnancy and abortion, love gained and scorned, homelessness, racism, and mental illness, and ends in the midst of the Almeda fires and pandemic of 2020. Her healing process is reflected in her paintings, collages, and painted dresses, paired with her poems. Flower medicine, and all its associated metaphors of romance, sexuality, pregnancy, artistic power, growth and self-love theme this book. My Perfect Offering refers to that which we create, from children to art, and the grace that comes when we vulnerably share these gifts. You can go to blurb.com for a page preview and to purchase.

The Ojai Poems: Best Poems (coming soon)

This is a collection of the best poems from nine chapbooks from The Ojai Poems: Journey of a Spiritual Nomad (2011-2017), written from 2011-2012 by Eden Orlando. After college, Eden lived in a tent on a spiritual retreat center for eight months, the beginning of a spiritual awakening that would inevitably save her life.

Poetry books by Eden Orlando. Photo by Eden Orlando.

The Ojai Poems: Best Poems (coming soon) by Eden Orlando. Photo by Linda Orlando.

Seed Pearls: Kauai Poems (2020) by Eden Orlando. Photo by Eden Orlando.

My Perfect Offering: A Novel in Poems (2021) by Eden Orlando. Photo by Eden Orlando.

My Perfect Offering: A Novel in Poems (2021) by Eden Orlando. Photo by Eden Orlando.

Books available at the following locations:

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Bloomsbury Books
290 E Main St
Ashland, OR 97520
(541) 488-0029
bloomsburyashland.com

Golden Grove Collective
342 Lithia Way
Ashland, OR 97520
(541) 482-2543
goldengroveshop.com

Elder Apothecary
5 North Main St, Suite 2
Ashland, OR 97520
(541) 708-6951
elderapothecary.love

Seed Pearls: Kauai Poems (2020) by Eden Orlando at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland, OR. Photo by Eden Orlando.

My Perfect Offering: A Novel in Poems (2021) by Eden Orlando on the shelves at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland, OR. Photo by Eden Orlando.

Books by Eden Orlando at Golden Grove Collective in Ashland, OR: My Perfect Offering: A Novel in Poems (2021), Seed Pearls: Kauai Poems (2020) and Oregon Wildfires Anthology (2020). Photo by Golden Grove Collective.

Eden Orlando's booth at Ashland Artisan Emporium, Ashland, OR, 2021. Photo by Eden Orlando.