Using the natural world as both mirror and lens, the poems in Denton Loving's third full-length collection of poetry explore themes of connection, longing, and the pursuit of a fully lived life. They celebrate "the light that enters the woods and cleanses the wound." They seek the sacred order in everything, from the phases of the moon down to the delicate colors of a moth's wings. And yet, they are not cloistered away from the human struggle--whether with nature, with each other, or with the self. FELLER envisions our environment and landscape, not as mere backdrop or ornament but as revelatory forces illuminating the hidden chambers of the self. At once deeply rooted in his Appalachian soil and universally resonant, FELLER confirms Loving's position among those rare poets who transmute a sense of place into profound human truth. "With a naturalist's sense of ecology and concision, Denton Loving weaves out of this world both allegory and immediacy, a place where you can be both hurt and healed, and where you must unbramble all the truths of living through this earth. Loving's precision of line and sentence, of image and sound, render poems where 'Each bud swells and splits / and unfurls into leaves // and fruit. A tender explosion!' At once timely and timeless, FELLER is a superbly striking and essential book." --Matt W. Miller, author of TENDER THE RIVER "Denton Loving makes lyric sense of complex issues in poem after poem in FELLER, with his special blend of eco-poetics and earthly reason. Read this book for its verbal delights, even in heartbreak, where the speaker notes how 'even a tree has desire,' and is able to 'praise the quake of the earth accepting its weight.'" --Elaine Sexton, author of SITE SPECIFIC "These poems shimmer and shapeshift like the dual meaning inherent in the collection's title. So too do the speakers in these poems, who are both vulnerable humans and conduits through which lyrical ecstasy passes. These are love poems, loss poems, poems that 'open doors to new worlds.' They refuse an easy sentimentality. FELLER is defined by its abundance, by the 'bright tapestry' of its intricately crafted sonic pleasures. Underlying the human 'language of grief' and Loving's attentive reverence for the natural world is this music, which is always 'a newly alive thing.' Reading FELLER is a transformative, joyful, loneliness-alleviating experience." --Annie Woodford, award-winning author of WHERE YOU COME FROM IS GONE Denton Loving is the author of the poetry collections CRIMES AGAINST BIRDS and TAMP, recipient of the inaugural Tennessee Book Award for Poetry. He is a cofounder and editor at EastOver Press and its literary journal Cutleaf. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including The Kenyon Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Ecotone.