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Kevin McGrath ~ Romance: The Only Life
This poem delves into the quiet heroism of those living on society’s margins—refugees, migrants, and the dispossessed. It explores courage not as a grand, visible act but as a quiet, enduring resilience, a refusal to collapse under the weight of unrelenting solitude and displacement. Through its spare, haunting lines, the poem presents an almost mythic vision of survival, where nature itself becomes a companion, offering solace when human systems fail.
The verses move from desolation to a sort of spiritual ascendance, where hardship carves out a depth of compassion—a “terrific moral force.” This courage transforms alienation into a profound inner vision, an ability to perceive beauty “exceeding grief and thirst.” It’s a paradoxical beauty, found not in ease but in hardship, a beauty that builds a quiet, unbreakable sanctuary within.
The verses move from desolation to a sort of spiritual ascendance, where hardship carves out a depth of compassion—a “terrific moral force.” This courage transforms alienation into a profound inner vision, an ability to perceive beauty “exceeding grief and thirst.” It’s a paradoxical beauty, found not in ease but in hardship, a beauty that builds a quiet, unbreakable sanctuary within.
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Publication Date: December 2, 2024
Paperback: $18.00 Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1-955194-40-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2024948742 Paperback: 90 pages |
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