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Swelling Dark: The [Anti]hero's Journey

Swelling Dark: The [Anti]hero's Journey

by Devos, Indira
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In Swelling Dark, Indira Devos lifts the covers and beckons you closer, offering a space at the edge of the pillow where the softest confessions are made. With a voice that is by turns wry, prayerful, painfully earnest, and delightfully self-skeptical, this debut collection drifts like midnight melancholy, with imagery that glows even in half-light. These poems slip between lullabies and warnings, tenderness and shadow, inviting the reader to rest in the in-between.

Structured in sections named for the unruly children of Nyx, goddess of night, the collection becomes a descent toward whatever truth remains in the uneasy spiritual residue left behind when you've outgrown your own myth. Here, dreams bruise. Grief curls against yearning. Identity flickers like a candle refusing to decide whether to burn or go out. Devos gently traces each page like a bare back, with the quiet devastations and small resurrections that shape a life lived in honest darkness.

Swelling Dark: The [Anti]hero's Journey is a refreshingly, and hauntingly, honest debut-one that refuses salvation, yet still reaches for it in the night, palms open.

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Pub dateNov 20, 2025
ISBN-10106939940X
ISBN-139781069399403
LanguageEnglish
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