Far Country

Poems

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Pub Date Mar 04 2025 | Archive Date Mar 31 2025

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In her new collection, Far Country, Kyce Bello documents an unmapped territory in which loss becomes a medium for deepening connection and love. In poems firmly rooted in the Southwestern bioregion, landscape and language are layered into vivid sequences where the personal, collective, and ecological merge and illuminate one another. Ultimatelythe collection forms a new map of the unknown, traveling to a realm in which worlds both seen and unseen are fused into a rich tapestry of lyric exploration and wonder. In the poem, “The Bend,” a woman asks, “How do we survive this?” Far Country is not an answer, but a witnessing and embrace that becomes its own act of resilience and transformation.
 

In her new collection, Far Country, Kyce Bello documents an unmapped territory in which loss becomes a medium for deepening connection and love. In poems firmly rooted in the Southwestern bioregion...


A Note From the Publisher

Keywords:
Ecopoetry
lyric poetry
climate change literature
women’s literature
nature poetry
motherhood
women and nature

Keywords:
Ecopoetry
lyric poetry
climate change literature
women’s literature
nature poetry
motherhood
women and nature


Advance Praise

"The poems in Far Country exist both in our material world and in a world entirely beyond. Steeped in cricket songs, this collection is a meditation on climate, futures, legacy, and the land beneath our feet when we stop and take a moment to notice the wide sky. Far Country is a gorgeous follow-up to one of my favorite poetry collections by one of my favorite poets."

Jake Skeets, author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

“These are poems saturated in feeling, shimmering with startling imagery, simultaneously clear and mysterious, patient in their stalking of silence and music. Like a night-blooming fragrance, these poems bring me closer to the medicine of earth and to dreamtime.”

Anne Haven McDonnell, author of Breath on a Coal and Living with Wolves

“In Far Country, eco-grief is the canvas upon which the poet paints the trauma of transformation. These poems meet the edge of both abyss and evolution as each new unfathomable world is born. Bello’s work holds up this hope to us: that we were made for this."

David Anthony Martin, author of Bijoux and The Ground Nest 

"The poems in Far Country exist both in our material world and in a world entirely beyond. Steeped in cricket songs, this collection is a meditation on climate, futures, legacy, and the land beneath...


Marketing Plan

• Vivid, engaging poetry accessible to a wide audience

• A deeply compassionate voice in the current conversation about climate change

• Celebrates the seasons of the natural world and family life

• Deeply rooted in place, observed with a naturalist’s eye and poet’s voice

• This book summons forth a future in which our stories are needed as part of the record for the changes wrought by our time.

• Bears witness to a shared experience of change and loss in the natural world

• Ultimately hopeful and honoring of resilience


• Vivid, engaging poetry accessible to a wide audience

• A deeply compassionate voice in the current conversation about climate change

• Celebrates the seasons of the natural world and family life...


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ISBN 9781647791810
PRICE $18.00 (USD)
PAGES 76

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Kyce Bello is a clinical herbalist and a registered nurse, and those two personas manifest and collide beautifully in this collection. Her poems speak of motherhood, birth, pain, and healing, but with wild and natural imagery of plants, animals, seasons, and quiet. She has a clear connectedness to the rhythms of the natural world. The feeling of this collection is solitude and observance: the power of quietly listening to what surrounds you and trying to learn from the infinite wisdom of how the world changes, heals, and changes again. Being from the Southwest, the reverence for Ponderosa pines, Sandhill cranes, snakebroom, saltbush - it all makes me feel at home. A gorgeous collection.

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