{"product_id":"river-church-9798990754010","title":"River Church","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA searing, lyrical journey spanning three and a half decades of raw, intimate, and unflinching poetry. \u003c\/strong\u003eRiver Church: Selected Poems 1990-2025 by \u003cstrong\u003eKent Fielding\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a book for readers of contemporary poetry who crave emotional depth, narrative bite, and the wild honesty of lived experience.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the vivid realism of \"Coffee with Adele\" and \"Kansas City Airport\" to the mythic landscapes of \"The Goat Woman's Dream\" and \"River Church Cemetery,\" Fielding's poems \u003cstrong\u003etransform trauma, loss, and longing into something fierce, poetic, and enduring.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFielding, Kent:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Kent Fielding is a teacher, coach, and poet - has taught in the Marshall Islands, at Jefferson Community College, University of Alaska Southeast, Mt. Edgecumbe, and Skagway High School. Author of a book of poetry, Chief Iffuccan, and a chapbook, The Revolution is About to Begin, his work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Asheville Poetry Review, The Jefferson Review, Pavement Saw, Modern Haiku, The Beat Scene, Frisk Magazine, Night Owl Narrative: A Cajun Mutt Rag, and Tidal Echoes, among others.\"","brand":"Radial Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51475034636562,"sku":"9798990754010","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c6be80fc-8d90-4458-b3c5-ae91db0976c3.jpg?v=1752585426","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/river-church-9798990754010","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}