SAINT JULIAN PRESS
SONG OF THE REPUBLIC
By Kevin McGRATH
Houston, Texas – August 7, 2020 – Press Release: Saint Julian Press is proud to announce a new book of poetry. SONG OF THE REPUBLIC, by author Kevin McGrath, which will be published on October 2, 2020.
Poetry is neither how we speak nor how we write but it is a medium that is much closer to how human beings think. Song Of The Republic is a book about the natural world where human compulsion and submission are dramatized through the play of flora and fauna in a New England setting. In this scenery the subtraction of human futility is made beautiful as both love and grief which—in the face of death—become conditions for admiration and sometimes transcendence. Within this vast metaphorical theatre, the act of friendship is a path which allows us to move from room to room as we proceed towards our sole freedom, that is, in the performance and practice of impassioned love.
Poetry is neither how we speak nor how we write but it is a medium that is much closer to how human beings think. Song Of The Republic is a book about the natural world where human compulsion and submission are dramatized through the play of flora and fauna in a New England setting. In this scenery the subtraction of human futility is made beautiful as both love and grief which—in the face of death—become conditions for admiration and sometimes transcendence. Within this vast metaphorical theatre, the act of friendship is a path which allows us to move from room to room as we proceed towards our sole freedom, that is, in the performance and practice of impassioned love.
"McGrath’s new book of poems shows him at one with nature in all its abundance and beauty, the earth, the heavens, and all the creatures, human beings included, that nature comprehends. The title of the collection, Song of the Republic, is reflected throughout, as is the threat to nature and to humanity, which is a condition of that republic.”
—Richard F. Thomas
George Martin Lane
Professor of the Classics
Harvard University
George Martin Lane
Professor of the Classics
Harvard University
Kevin McGRATH was born in southern China in 1951 and was educated in England and Scotland; he has lived and worked in France, Greece, and India. Presently he is an Associate of the Department of South Asian Studies and Poet Laureate at Lowell House, Harvard University. Recent publications include: Supernature (2012); Eroica (2013); In The Kacch and Windward (2015); and Eros (2016). McGrath lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his family.
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Publication Date: OCTOBER 2, 2020
Paperback in Color: $18.00 ISBN: 978-1-7330233-3-7 Number of pages: 128 For an advance copy contact Saint Julian Press. |
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