About the Book

"This Fierce Afterglow," by Swep Lovitt, contains selected poems from his earlier collection, Sometimes the World is Too Beautiful, along with 33 new poems.

Author's Guiding Principle

Lovitt's guiding dictum comes from Ezra Pound: "only emotion endures."

Themes and Content

These are poems of family and the day-to-day in the world, all the while burning up in the atmosphere.