Love and Politics

By John Swofford

Love and Politics is a bold, intellectually charged poem that refuses to separate the intimate from the ideological. In this tightly wrought, rhyming poem, John Swofford explores faith, desire, nationhood, masculinity, family, and conscience-not as abstract ideas, but as forces that collide inside a single, searching mind.
Moving between devotion and doubt, romance and rupture, the speaker wrestles with God, with lovers, with parents, and with the shifting ground of contemporary politics. Christ appears not as ornament but as argument. Love is neither sentimental nor safe; it is a test of integrity, a reckoning with pride, lust, loyalty, and regret. The poems speak candidly about anger, ideology, sexuality, and spiritual hunger, refusing easy resolution while insisting on moral seriousness.
Throughout the collection, wit and confession stand side by side. There are moments of satire and self-indictment, of cultural critique and private vulnerability. The voice is urgent yet controlled, lyrical yet argumentative-driven by a need to reconcile the personal with the public, the sacred with the flawed.
Love and Politics is not escapist poetry. It is a work for readers who want to think as they feel, who believe that belief itself deserves examination, and who recognize that the most difficult battleground is often the human heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQPPVD97
• ISBN13: 9798250246408
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"