“rip up this book, my love / i wrote it for you” So opens Emma Ruth Rundle’s book of poetry, entitled The Bella Vista. The multidisciplinary visual artist and musician has now released six solo albums over the past decade to commercial and critical acclaim. The release of The Bella Vista will mark her literary debut.
With The Bella Vista, Emma Ruth Rundle turns to language as the best and perhaps only tool suitable to express, in her words, “the tenderness and brutality of romantic love.” The collection of poetry is a concept, an addiction memoir, a family tree, and a love letter all at once—to music, mistakes, and humanity; to cross-country drives and other artists and the long road to finding oneself.
Rundle tells, “Written on the road over the course of a year, ‘The Bella Vista’ is equal parts travel-log, love story and journal of dark existential reflection. It is what I have spent the last two years of my creative life working on and I am both relieved and excited to finally be sharing it.”
The Bella Vista will be published by Unnamed Press and available at bookstores and online on February 11, 2025 – pre-order here. To coincide with the book, Rundle will release a limited edition audio album consisting of minimalistic, contemplative piano sketches à la Harold Budd of whom the book was named in honor of, and was highly influential to The Bella Vista. Copies will be limited to 300 and available in a signed first edition hardcover + exclusive vinyl bundle here. Rundle is on tour this Fall crossing both coasts and more. For tickets, go here.
Emma Ruth Rundle Live Dates:
10/26 – Asheville, NC – Heavy Mountain Fest
10/28 – Raleigh, NC – Kings +
10/29 – Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Hall +
10/30 – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery +
11/01 – Brooklyn, NY – Littlefield + (SOLD OUT)
11/02 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom +
11/03 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church +
11/04 – Brooklyn, NY – Public Records +
11/29 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios #
11/30 – Seattle, WA – Tractor #
12/02 – Sacramento, CA – Harlows #
12/03 – San Francisco, CA – GAMH #
12/05 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon #
12/06 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon #
12/07 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar #
12/09 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar #
12/10 – Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf #
12/12 – Austin, TX – Austin Central Presbyterian #
12/13 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves #
12/14 – Oklahoma City, OK – Resonant Head #
12/16 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theatre #
+ with Ora Cogan
# with Storefront Church
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