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F A M E  by Kevin McGrath

​Houston, Texas – May 1, 2023 – Press Release:  Saint Julian Press is proud to announce a new book of poetry, F A M E, by author Kevin McGrath. 
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Cover image: Ioannis Hamaris, 1963, courtesy of the Benaki Museum Athens.
​F A M E  is a book about human affection and disaffection and the unique narrative which presents this perpetual movement. The poems come from India, Greece, the Windward Islands, and New England, places whose landscapes have informed the metaphors of this work. Love being itself the only metaphor that allows us to apprehend our true freedom in this world, enabling us to give more than we receive so that our aim be true. Fame is a sign of this transcendental knowledge and experience.
“For those who can love—all at once—the words of Homer, of Sappho, of English renaissance verse and of Shakespeare, of Cavafy, of Seferis, of some anonymous woman whose singing of unrequited love is accidentally overheard by a passerby in some remote Greek village, the poetry of Kevin McGrath will bring unforgettable delight to both the heart and the mind.”
—Gregory Nagy
Francis Jones Professor of Greek Literature,
Professor of Comparative Literature, and former
Director of The Center for Hellenic Studies
at Harvard University.
“Kevin McGrath is a rare poet of penetrating vision, attentive always to the ebb and flow of life, to beginnings, turnings, and endings, to the meeting places of the sea and land, shore and horizon, to the thin and translucent places where light shines through the worlds of nature. His words bring love and light to days and nights, seasons and years, birth and death.”
—Diana Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies,
 Director of The Pluralism Project, and former
Master of Lowell House at Harvard University.
​Kevin McGrath was born in southern China in 1951 and was educated in England and Scotland; he has lived and worked in France, Greece, and India. Presently he is an Associate of the Department of South Asian Studies and Poet Laureate at Lowell House, Harvard University. McGrath lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his family.
​Publications include Fame (1995); Lioness (1998); The Sanskrit Hero (2004);
Flyer (2005); Comedia (2008); Stri (2009); Jaya (2011); Supernature (2012);
Eroica, and Heroic Krsna (2013); In the Kacch, and Windward (2015);
Arjuna Pandava, and Eros (2016); Raja Yudhisthira (2017);
Bhisma Devavrata (2018); Vyasa Redux (2019); Song Of The Republic (2020);
and On Friendship, and Causality In Homeric Song (forthcoming, 2023).
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Author Photo: Courtesy of Akos Szilvasi
​F A M E by Kevin McGrath
Publication Date: May 1, 2023
Paperback: $25.00
Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc.
Language: English
Paperback: 284 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-955194-12-9
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023931325
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F A M E

First Poem

Second Poem

Third Poem

Fourth Poem
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