Distant Fires by Doug Ramspeck

Winner of the 2019 Grayson Books Poetry Contest

In the intense and compelling collection, Distant Fires, Doug Ramspeck reveals how the heart persists in loving even those who are unlovable. For the narrator, his brother is a puzzle he cannot abandon but never solve…. A section of letters from the brother where he describes his life spreading “out like some great and endless sea” demonstrates the complexity and sensitivity that cause the narrator to love his brother in spite of actions that should padlock the heart.

—Vivian Shipley, Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor and author of An Archaeology of Days

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