River Church

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A searing lyrical journey spanning three and a half decades of raw intimate and unflinching poetry. </strong><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>River Church: Selected Poems 1990-2025</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> by </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kent Fielding</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a fearless collection that traverses continents and inner landscapes-Siberia Kentucky the Pacific Islands and the haunted corridors of memory. These poems confront the sacred and the profane the tender and the brutal all with Fielding's signature blend of dark wit mythic vision and working-class lyricism.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a book for readers of contemporary poetry who crave emotional depth narrative bite and the wild honesty of lived experience.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Through Fielding's voice we encounter the beauty of coral reefs and the despair of addiction the electric storm of a daughter's birth and the ghostly silence of a snowman's final breath. The result is a book at once haunted and deeply human where tenderness survives even the worst betrayals.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the vivid realism of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Coffee with Adele</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kansas City Airport</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> to the mythic landscapes of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Goat Woman's Dream</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>River Church Cemetery</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Fielding's poems </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>transform trauma loss and longing into something fierce poetic and enduring.</strong></p>