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This Fierce Afterglow, by Swep Lovitt, contains selected poems from his earlier collection, Sometimes the World is Too Beautiful along with 33 new poems. Lovitt's guiding dictum comes from Ezra Pound: "only emotion endures." These are poems of family and the day-to-day in the world, all the while burning up in the atmosphere. PERSONAL AD UPDATE My sexuality still won't let me Alone, drives me to smart, Erratic women. When I think Of aging, I think of the Greek Poet Seferis, calling a blood clot A beautiful little ruby On his brain. No longer The post-divorce rented rooms, A two-story white…mehr

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This Fierce Afterglow, by Swep Lovitt, contains selected poems from his earlier collection, Sometimes the World is Too Beautiful along with 33 new poems. Lovitt's guiding dictum comes from Ezra Pound: "only emotion endures." These are poems of family and the day-to-day in the world, all the while burning up in the atmosphere. PERSONAL AD UPDATE My sexuality still won't let me Alone, drives me to smart, Erratic women. When I think Of aging, I think of the Greek Poet Seferis, calling a blood clot A beautiful little ruby On his brain. No longer The post-divorce rented rooms, A two-story white house, Woods, beds of purple azaleas. The Friedlaenders hung. A blue jay on a branch just off My porch. 2012-2019. Seven years I've lived alone.
Autorenporträt
Swep Lovitt was born and raised in Mississippi. After college, he worked for 30 years in Memphis and now resides in Brookhaven, Mississippi. He played college golf and took a Masters in Modern European History from the University of Southern Mississippi. Lovitt has two grown sons and a daughter, each with poems of their own.