Kin and Kind

By John Swofford

Kin and Kind is an unruly, intimate, and deeply personal book of poetry that refuses to separate the sacred from the profane. Moving between love, God, sexuality, identity, family, politics, art, mathematics, and the strange machinery of the mind, it creates a world where seemingly incompatible voices collide-and somehow belong together. The poems are funny, obscene, tender, philosophical, angry, and searching, often within the same breath. At its center is a restless speaker trying to understand who he is, whom he loves, what God means, and whether the boundaries separating one person from another-and even one moment from another-are as solid as they seem. The book's recurring movement toward connection, forgiveness, transformation, and a better future gives its chaos a surprising emotional coherence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGCZQL1X
• ISBN13: 9798194690275
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"