All the Color, All the Wind: poems

by Nicholas Trandahl

With his newest poetry collection, All the Color, All the Wind , Nicholas Trandahl takes readers deeper into the wilds with his unique brand of sparse immediate poetry. His familiar odes to nature, backcountry adventure, and saints are peppered with poems about friendship, love, and fatherhood. In the pages of All the Color, All the Wind , Trandahl serves readers as a seasoned guide through alpine tundra and mountain passes, through vibrant canyonlands and deserts, through stars, moons, and myths.

105 pages, Paperback

Published March 17, 2023

About the author

Nicholas Trandahl is a poet, journalist, outdoorsman, and U. S. Army veteran. He lives in Wyoming with his wife and daughters. He has had four poetry collections and a novel published. His most recent poetry collection is Mountain Song.
Trandahl’s poetry collection Bravery was the recipient of the 2019 Wyoming Writers Milestone Award, and his poem “Francis and Sistani” was nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in various literary journals, including but not limited to the James Dickey Review, Sky Island Journal, High Plains Register, The Dewdrop, Duck Head Journal, Resurrection Magazine, Dreich Magazine, Voices de la Luna, Deep Wild Journal, Wild Roof Journal, Twenty Bellows, and anthologies from Middle Creek Publishing, Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, and the New York Quarterly.
Additionally, Trandahl serves as the Chairman of the annual Eugene V. Shea National Poetry Contest and is the poetry editor for the literary journal The Dewdrop.

Reviews

[Casey Rislov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Travel. Find new thoughts to ponder and destinations to seek through Nicholas's emotions and outdoor mountain adventures.

[Ingrid Calderon-Collins · Rating 5 out of 5]

As an avid fan of Trandahl, I can testify that this collection is softer—more introspective— a conversation between the narrator, the sky, earth, God and the aether. I read it in its entirety while sitting in my car amongst the bustling traffic of Los Angeles. A much needed meditation. Trandahl is an expert in setting a scene, in executing temperature and handing us over to the elements. I can see how this was perhaps a paved path to the current form the author embodies / it is hungry and winding.