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The Distances Between by George Vose III

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The Distances Between is a collection of 24 poems written during a period of examination and introspection— a season of reckoning with what endures and what fades. These pieces explore how history and inheritance, faith and doubt, intimacy and estrangement echo through the rooms we inhabit and the rituals we repeat.The collection moves from the domestic and immediate — fractured households, remembered gestures, fragile truces — toward a broader meditation on community and loss. In early pieces such as A Fragile Impasse and Procession, the private intersects with the ceremonial; small familial dramas unfold within the larger choreography of belief and belonging. From there, the poems widen their gaze — toward mortality, labor, and the uneasy inheritance of history — yet always return to the intimate human pulse beneath it all.Written in a style that prizes restraint over excess, these poems aim to reveal the weight of feeling through precision rather than flourish. Each piece, in its way, measures the distance between what is said and what is felt — between the living and the dead, the personal and the public, the sacred and the profane. Together, they navigate what remains unspoken: the distances between what we remember, what we love, and what we become. #poetry #history #faith #life #booktok
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George Vose’s work explores the distances between memory and myth, the domestic and the historical, the sacred and the ordinary. His style emanates from a New England sensibility—measured, austere, and haunted by inheritance—where restraint and compression become their own forms of revelation and expression. George resides in Kingston, MA with his wife and daughter.  He enjoys golfing and curating a humble but burgeoning vintage watch collection.

 

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At its heart, The Distances Between by George Vose is a book about echoes: the rituals we repeat, the silences we inherit, and the emotional landscapes we carry from room to room, generation to generation. Each poem measures the distance between what is spoken and what is felt, what endures and what fades, what we lose and what still calls us home. Thoughtful, intimate, and deeply human, this collection invites readers to sit with the ache of becoming—and the quiet beauty of what remains.

—Leah Huete de Maines

 

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