A NEW POETRY COLLECTION
BLISS
BORN OF
PAIN
by Sierra La Rue Redfield
A poetry collection about transformation, wonder, and the beauty that becomes visible when we learn to fully inhabit our lives.
“How many ways will the world whisper, ‘I love you,’
until we realize it’s been true the whole time?”
-“Simple” Bliss Born of PainSome experiences do not leave us unchanged.
Bliss Born of Pain is a contemporary poetry collection about transformation—the ways grief, love, motherhood, nature, and the body can remake us, deepen us, and return us to the experience of being fully alive.
Moving through tenderness, loss, longing, embodiment, revelation, and joy, these poems trace a journey from rupture toward greater attention: to beauty, to love, to the natural world, and to the extraordinary experience of being here at all.
This is not a collection about suffering for suffering's sake.
It is about what becomes possible through it.
The softness that survives.
The wonder that returns.
The beauty made more visible by contrast.
The life waiting to be fully inhabited.
For anyone who has ever wondered whether the difficult parts of being human might open us more deeply to beauty.
For the person learning that healing does not always mean returning to who you were.
For the mother meeting herself again inside a life that has changed her.
For the one who has loved deeply enough to know that tenderness and grief can occupy the same room.
For anyone longing to feel more present, more awake, more alive.
Bliss Born of Pain is an invitation to look closely.
To inhabit the body.
To notice what is beautiful.
To remain available to wonder.
And perhaps to discover that the life we are searching for has been here all along.
BLISS BORN OF PAIN
Poetry by
Sierra La Rue Redfield
Published by Pegasus Publishers
September 24, 2026
A poetry collection exploring transformation, love, motherhood, tenderness, and the profound grace found within contrast.
Available worldwide beginning September 24, 2026.
Sierra La Rue Redfield
Sierra La Rue Redfield is a poet, photographer, and visual storyteller based in Central Oregon. Her work explores beauty, wonder, motherhood, the natural world, and the extraordinary experience of being alive.
Through poetry and photography, she is interested in the art of paying attention—the moments of light, connection, transformation, and awe that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
Her poetry collection, Bliss Born of Pain, explores what becomes possible when we move fully through the difficult parts of being human: a deeper capacity for love, beauty, embodiment, and wonder.
Sierra lives and creates in Central Oregon.
Some books tell us something new.
Others give language to something we already knew by heart.
Bliss Born of Pain is a collection for the latter.
A poetry collection by Sierra La Rue Redfield
Published by Pegasus Publishers · September 24, 2026