<p>In this debut full-length collection of poetry by Dudgrick Bevins, the poet’s memories of his youth become your own. Bevins has crafted not only a tale of personal history but a kind of archetypal roadmap through rural Appalachia where he mines the terrain of his past for remnants of beauty forged among the smothering haze of misty mountaintops. Family, religion, and sexuality intertwine like vines of kudzu strangling old growth trees.</p>

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Literature & Fiction

Bevins, Dudgrick

Poetry

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<p>Dudgrick Bevins is a rare poet who commands narrative and characterization as deftly as he channels emotion and imagination. Vigil is an eloquent and elegant story, told from the afterlife by a cast of dead teenagers who were victims of a school shooting. Like Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology, Bevins's poems give voice to the souls who can no longer speak for themselves. The afterlife for this bunch of teenagers, as it turns out, is full of gossip and idle chatter, not unlike the school halls they wandered in life. Vigil is a poetic condemnation of the gun violence that plagues the United States, but it is also a celebration of life.</p>

Vigil

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Vigil