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Black Mountain Poems
Hardcover
Metaphysical GeneralGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $33.00
Publisher: Gavin Dillard Poetry Library & Archive
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This abundant volume of aphorisms, elegies, and pure celebration of nature, spirit, and incisive attention to the world outside and inside himself, gives Dillard the chance to really enthrall. Poems such as these are to be read over and over. Jocular, honest, and completely in the art of its craft, these poems provide the reader a chance to witness and engage with his life - a rich amalgam of love, the ribald joy in desire, and the acceptance of his life as it has been lived, and as it grows even more.
There are few poets who come close to what Gavin Geoffrey Dillard has done here, in this unique and beautiful collection. Rumination - close to the work of Rumi and the spiritual poets - is its elementary ground, and the results of the observed life are to be taken not only as a guide to his deep perception, but also his innate ability for grace and gratitude. A stunning collection.
Philip F. Clark (THE CARNIVAL OF AFFECTION)
Dillard's poetry is best read at night, ideally with a rain shower drumming against the roof. Gavin drip drips reverence and irreverence, silliness and profundity onto page, but it's the authenticity that shines through and makes the work such a treat. There is something comforting in the reminder that, when we are at odds with a world in chaos, there is always peace to be found in the woods. Thoreau and Dillard would have been best of friends.
Ken Ilgunas (WALDEN ON WHEELS, TRESPASSING ACROSS AMERICA)
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