Reprise: "The Man Who Writes Like Pablo Neruda"

remembering James Tipton

Originally published on “How to Grow a Poem” in May 2023.

"The man who writes like Pablo Neruda." 

That's how the acclaimed novelist and memoirist Isabel Allende introduced James Tipton to her family, as she recalled in a foreword to Jim's Colorado Book Award-winning poetry collection Letters From A Stranger.

"Like Neruda, Jim Tipton is a man of the heart …