This Fierce Afterglow, by Swep Lovitt, contains selected poems from his earlier collection, Sometimes the World is Too Beautiful along with 33 new poems. Lovitt's guiding dictum comes from Ezra Pound: "only emotion endures." These are poems of family and the day-to-day in the world, all the while burning up in the atmosphere.

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My sexuality still won't let me

Alone, drives me to smart,

Erratic women. When I think

Of aging, I think of the Greek

Poet Seferis, calling a blood clot

A beautiful little ruby

On his brain. No longer

The post-divorce rented rooms,

A two-story white house,

Woods, beds of purple azaleas.

The Friedlaenders hung.

A blue jay on a branch just off

My porch. 2012-2019.

Seven years I've lived alone.