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John Poch is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Grace College in Indiana. His poems and translations have appeared widely in magazines such as Poetry, Paris Review, The Nation, and Agni. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, and his most recent book is Notes on the Poet (Measure Press 2023). He is the series editor of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize (UNT Press), and he recently edited the collection Gracious: Poems from the 21st Century South (TTU Press 2020).
Ardor emanates from every page of John Poch's The Future of Love. With the force of a zephyr perfumed with the olive, orange, and almond groves of his beloved Spain, Poch explores love-of place, of the beloved, of language, of love itself-in all its guises: devotional, erotic, playful, impoverished, penitential, hungry, emboldened. ""Your voice is a poem on fire in a wire birdcage,"" Poch writes of his B/beloved. ""[T]he memory of your voice fills my hair with metal filings / and each church I pass is a magnet that loves arches."" Heir to the passionate poetries of Sappho, the Biblical Song of Songs, Mirabai, Rumi, Neruda, Hopkins, and Lorca, Poch has, with this latest book, matured fully into what he has always been, a poet of adoration.Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems and Paradise Close: A NovelLike one of the ancient Spanish cities John Poch writes about, these poems are lush, decadent, haunted and haunting, full of color and detours and unexpected vistas and almost unbearable beauty. Poch's metaphorical gift is on robust display: ""Your hair is the color of the buff rust swallows' bellies / banking above the river after four days of rain,"" he writes. These are love poems that center the beloved yet somehow transcend mere mortal boundaries. What a lucky reader whose future holds The Future of Love.Beth Ann Fennelly, author of The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
