Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Conversations with Good Men, Bethel Swift's debut chapbook, witnesses a feminist's awakening while grappling to better understand her upbringing, beliefs, desires, place, and sense of self-worth following the trauma of betrayal. Through real and imagined dialogue between the feminine and the masculine, these poems invite the reader on a three-act journey exploring the spiritual and practical complexity of being in relationship with family, faith, lovers, friends, and one's self - all the while learning to love, lose, and become open to loving again.
Synopsis
Conversations with Good Men is a three-act drama, written in verse, that takes readers on a journey of love, longing, heartbreak, and hope. Bethel Swift's poems compassionately explore the concept of man's "goodness" in addition to her own struggles as a single female navigating the world of dating and relationships while contending with anxiety, depression, sexual assault, survivorship, and growth. Fans of poets from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to E.E. Cummings, to Rupi Kaur and Charly Cox will appreciate Swift's brevity, wit, transparency, and heart in this collection.