Böcker av Dudgrick Bevins

Vigil is an eloquent and elegant story in poems, told from the afterlife by dead teenagers who were victims of a school shooting. Like Edgar Lee Masters''s Spoon River Anthology, Bevins''s poems give voice to the souls who can no longer speak for themselves. The afterlife for this bunch of teenagers, as it turns out, is full of gossip and idle chatter, not unlike the school halls they wandered in life. Even from the beyond, they have the same wishes, fears, hopes, and dreams as those they left behind. Vigil is a poetic condemnation of the gun violence that plagues the United States, but it is also a celebration of life.

From the publisher: Brimming with adolescent angst, the authors embark on a journey to reconnect seventeen years after they were seventeen. A conversation in poems and letters, Light Travels Further than Sound invites you into the private world of the authors - a world with its own language and mythology. "Dudgrick Bevins and Allen Lanning draw on the rituals of Georgia youth to create their own rites and mythology. Their shared experiences shape the work that follows - poems that at once feel familiar and utterly unknowable." - Chris Cummins

Georgia Dusk is an autobiographical poetry and photography chapbook collaboration by Dudgrick Bevins and luke kurtis. Both born in Dalton, Georgia and raised in rural Appalachia, the poet's lives followed very different paths. Yet they both ended up in New York City where they eventually met for the first time. Upon discovering their common roots, the two poets developed a unique poetic bond. In Georgia Dusk, their contrasting literary and visual styles give way to poetic dialogue that explores themes of grief, longing, gratitude, pain, and joy against the simultaneous backdrops of their shared heritage and adopted home.