Ohio Poet of the Year--2015 ~~ Reading Abandoned Homeland, Jeff Gundy's new collection, left me with awe and envy. Such exquisite lines about belief, desire, small-town life, grief, grace, mercy, failure, and faith. As the collection's title poem claims, we may all indeed be exiles on a mutilated, imperfect planet, but it's a world where, paradoxically, "We'll sing/and sway, praise each other and walk back in the dark/holding hands. Then we'll gather...
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