Sometimes the World Is Too Beautiful

"Sometimes The World Is Too Beautiful" combines poems selected from "A Boy's Face With Swan Wings" with recent poems. Set in the South, with references to Tennessee, the Gulf, Memphis, and Mississippi, the result is a book that reads as a book, not as a miscellany, offering section by section poems of nature, family, art, and marriage, and then, with the new poems, the painful dissolution of the marriage, a multi-faceted self-portrait, and finally, the elegiac "Grace" about the death of Lovitt's mother.
""Sometimes The World Is Too Beautiful" is a beautifully organized book, the first half made up of selected poems from "A Boy's Face With Swan Wings," 2004, poems of nature, family, art, and marriage, and the second half comprised of recent poems, 2005-2010. The division between the two is almost seamless. "Sometimes The World Is Too Beautiful" is a volume I watched, sometimes impatiently, carefully take shape across the years. It was worth the wait."--D.C. Berry, author of "Saigon Cemetery," "Divorce Boxing," "Vietnam Ecclesiastes," "Hamlet Off Stage," "A Week on the Chunky and Chickasawhay"