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The Kingdom Where No One Dies
By Jeff McRae
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Description
The poems often inhabit transitional spaces-leaving for college, moving houses, watching children grow, bearing witness to the slow dissolution of elders and traditions. They carry a strong sense of place-Vermont's fields and back roads, barns and schoolrooms-but also evoke the psychic terrain of those navigating the passing of time and the breaking of long-held familial structures. Voices from past and present-sons, fathers, teachers, musicians, old lovers, and lost friends-interweave to form a choral meditation on intimacy, failure, and persistence.
This is a collection that honors the ache and beauty of ordinary life. It neither romanticizes nor diminishes rural or working-class experience, but instead gives it full voice-imbued with dignity, complexity, and the accumulated weight of memory. The Kingdom Where No One Dies is a moving debut from a poet who writes with both wisdom and vulnerability, attentive to the small, luminous details that mark a life and the silences that follow.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
108
Release Date:
2025-10-14
Publication Date:
2025-10-14
Publisher:
Pulley Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN13:
9798990220898
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
152 g
Height:
148 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
6 cm
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