Far Country

Author: Kyce Bello

Publisher: University of Nevada Press (2025)

In her second collection of poems, Kyce Bello attempts to explore the unknowable— a landscape transformed by climate change, motherhood turned into crucible, the veils fluttering between the living and dead.

The poems in Far Country document a journey through an un-mapped territory in which loss— of the beloved earth, of a struggling daughter, of certainty and ease— becomes a medium for deepening connection and love.

The book unfolds like a journey through un-mapped territory, with stops in the underworld, the burning “known” world, and inner and outer landscapes transformed by drought and death.

These poems are a reckoning with change and loss. In one poem, “The Bend,” a woman asks, “How do we survive this?” “Far Country” is not an answer, but a witnessing, an embrace, and a celebration that becomes its own act of resilience and transformation.