Far Country
Poems
Published on 4. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
76 pages
978-1-64779-181-0 (ISBN)
Description
In her new collection, Far Country,Kyce Bello documents an unmapped territory in which loss becomes a medium for deepening connection and love. In poems firmly rooted in the Southwestern bioregion, landscape and language are layered into vivid sequences where the personal, collective, and ecological merge and illuminate one another. Ultimately, the collection forms a new map of the unknown, traveling to a realm in which worlds both seen and unseen are fused into a rich tapestry of lyric exploration and wonder. In the poem, "The Bend," a woman asks, "How do we survive this?" Far Country is not an answer, but a witnessing and embrace that becomes its own act of resilience and transformation.
Reviews / Votes
"The poems in Far Country exist both in our material world and in a world entirely beyond. Steeped in cricket songs, this collection is a meditation on climate, futures, legacy, and the land beneath our feet when we stop and take a moment to notice the wide sky. Far Country is a gorgeous follow-up to one of my favorite poetry collections by one of my favorite poets." -Jake Skeets, author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers"These are poems saturated in feeling, shimmering with startling imagery, simultaneously clear and mysterious, patient in their stalking of silence and music. Like a night-blooming fragrance, these poems bring me closer to the medicine of earth and to dreamtime."
-Anne Haven McDonnell, author of Breath on a Coal and Living with Wolves
"In Far Country, eco-grief is the canvas upon which the poet paints the trauma of transformation. These poems meet the edge of both abyss and evolution as each new unfathomable world is born. Bello's work holds up this hope to us: that we were made for this. -David Anthony Martin, author of Bijoux and The Ground Nest
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Reno
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64779-181-0 (9781647791810)
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Person
Kyce Bello was the inaugural winner of the Test Site Poetry Prize with her debut collection, Refugia, which also received the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. Bello edited the award-winning anthology The Return of the River, a work of literary activism.