Armin Tolentino
Official Website of the Author
and Clark County Poet Laureate
We Meant to Bring it Home Alive
Alternating Current Press
From the Cover
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Brimming with imagination and melody. A spooky deep -dive through the intersections of myth, spirituality, and Americana.
Deb Jannerson
Author of Thanks for Nothing
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The mesmerizing wonder captured in Tolentino's poems evokes both confrontation and longing. Through the incredible, he pulls out some of the rawest emotions of human existance: awe, isolation, ache.
Do Nguyen Mai
Author of Ghosts Still Walking
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[His] poems reach across time and space, Biblical in scope, longing, and wonder. These poems ask us to consider how we map a way back to each other and to the unknown.
Ruth Awad
Author of Set to Music a Wildfire
BIO
ARMIN TOLENTINO earned his MFA at Rutgers University in Newark. He is the author of We Meant to Bring It Home Alive(Alternating Current Press, 2019), and his poetry has appeared in Hyphen Magazine, Arsenic Lobster, The Raven Chronicles, and elsewhere.
Originally from Lincoln Park, New Jersey, he now lives in Vancouver, Washington with his wife and her three chinchillas. He's an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient, an avid (albeit usually unsuccessful) fisherman, and hopes one day to earn a Guiness Record for World's Loudest Clap.
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