Reviews
Review by: Major Jackson, author of THE ABSURD MAN - January 2, 2023
"Denton Loving's TAMP reminds us that to grieve is to love, a sacred act that aims for clarity, and yet, mourning, too, makes us acutely aware of the profound questions that agitate the living. Loving's poems, deeply attuned to the richness of a rural sacred order, both honor and attempt to name that complexity with a music that feels movingly restorative."
Review by: Shawna Kay Rodenberg, author of KIN: A MEMOIR - January 2, 2023
"Each poem in TAMP is a world in its own right: each a timeless praise song to the earth, to solitude, loss, and love. With bucolic sensitivity shared by few, Loving has crafted the most convincing wake-up call--gentle, surefooted, hypnotic, and insistent. Tamp is a rare trove of honest, measured assurance, a blessed reminder of what matters most."
Review by: Jesse Graves, author of MERCIFUL DAYS - January 2, 2023
"In TAMP, his radiant new collection of odes and elegies, Denton Loving represents the works and days of rural Appalachia, and far beyond, with deep knowledge and delicate authenticity. Loving's poems occupy the ideal cross-section between two of poetry's oldest poles, the lyric and the narrative. It matters little whether readers greet these poems as stories that sing or lyrics that bind us in their telling, because the scenes and voices we discover will travel with us deep as treasured memories. Galway Kinnell once said that another word for poetry could be 'tenderness,' and this is the quality Loving brings most acutely to the loved people and places he offers tribute in TAMP."