Deer Bed Down Near The Embers
Deer Bed Down Near The Embers
Kevin Goodan
"This is a book of gnawing; a poetry collection memory-quickened and harvest ready. And of the language; the words pour the reader into place, setting, being. Surrounded fully by sound and sight, one is submersed into these captured moments. A beautiful read."
—J.F. Merifield, author of only half-breathed air
January 2028
ISBN: 9781967149179
Available in both print and digital formats.
Raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Western Montana, Kevin Goodan began working for the U.S. Forest Service at a young age, and attended the Universities of Montana and Massachusetts. He has lived in Northern Ireland, and lectured at universities on terrorism. His poems have been published in Ploughshares and other journals. Kevin Goodan lives in the Upper Valley Region of New Hampshire, where he operates a small-scale sustainable logging enterprise.
Additional Praise:
"Decades ago I wrote Kevin Goodan—not knowing him personally—to thank him for his first book. Now I'm writing you, reader, to alert you to his eighth book, which is as startlingly beautiful as the first. Here death and danger are very close, as the earth and people and creatures unfold both beauty and brutality with heartbreaking specificity. Here is the ice-bent birch, the hue of suet, the whisper of swallows, the annealing muck of thaw. Here is the emerald ash borer, killing all the trees. Here are the dead, who, because of their distressing vitality of their stories, never retreat very far. Here is a father trying to cheer his chronically ill young son with dirty jokes. Again and again this poet says he doesn't know why things are as they are, which makes me trust everything he says. The tender mouthfeel of language itself is this book's religion, telling of Lacrimae rerum, the deep-down tears of things the ancients sang about. Here this superb poet mashes the ugly apples he's been given—the book is the press—making for us a cider that's 'dark and sweet in the morning light.'"
—Patrick Donnelly, author of Willow Hammer, Little-Known Operas, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, and The Charge.
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“Raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Goodan has long worked with the U.S. Forest Service, and this follow-up to his eye-opening Anaphora details the immediacy of the firefighter’s life while offering transcendent reflection on time’s passage and our being in the world.”
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In Goodan’s second collection, nature is equally cruel to all, and yearning is subsumed by an acceptance as terrible as it is beautiful. These poems are ecstatic, musical prayers, finding God in the details as well as the void. Winter Tenor is a tightly wrought lyric exploration of the severities of farm life, where doom and grace are one.
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“. . .a voice that connects joy with holiness, and sorrow with mystery, and all of this in a language as sharp as flint and as earthborn as the lamb…. In the Ghost-House Acquainted is extraordinary.”
—Mary Oliver, in her judge’s citation for the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award
October 2004
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"In book after book, Kevin Goodan's bright eye sees the world keenly as a raptor's. Rapt. Raptor. Rapture. All meaning to seize or be seized. Reading In the Days That Followed, I am raptured. Hungry for each new page and grateful for the precise, lyric attention Goodan pays to the world."—Camille Dungy
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January 2028
ISBN: 9781967149179
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