Dears, Beloveds Kevin Phan.

Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, [2020]

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

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"The prose poetry in Kevin Phan's first collection, Dears, Beloveds, offers a fine-grained meditation on grief-personal, familial, ecological, and political. Informed by the author's engagement with Buddhism & mindfulness, the poems address looming absences: in our vanishing earth, the scraps of a haunting voicemail, or waiting at hospice with little to do. In these pages, the poet fights his way out of isolation, to establish filigrees of connectedness with himself, other humans, and the natural world. Whether meditating on the bodily loss of his cancer-stricken mother, the Black Lives Matter movement, or a shadow falling from a speck of dust in the kitchen, these lines are notable for their crisp and surprising movements, lucid imagery, aching tenderness, & humanity. Dears, Beloveds reminds us of the ironies, beauty, and complexity of our time on earth, as beings in time. Where we hurt. Where we heal each other"-- Provided by publisher.

Print version: Phan, Kevin, 1979- Dears, beloveds Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, [2020]

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October 27, 2020

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