Dears, Beloveds
Phan, Kevin
The prose poetry in Kevin Phan's first collection, Dears, Beloveds, offers a fine-grained meditation on grief--personal, familial, ecological, and political. Informed by the author's engagement with Buddhism & mindfulness, the poems address looming absences: in our vanishing earth, the scraps of a haunting voicemail, or waiting at hospice with little to do.