Black Mountain Poems, Gavin G Dillard

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Black Mountain Poems
Hardcover – November 11, 2025
by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard

In Black Mountain Poems, acclaimed poet Gavin Geoffrey Dillard—often dubbed “the naked poet” for his unabashed vulnerability and sensual honesty—returns with a collection that merges the sacred and the sensual, the cosmic and the carnal.

This abundant volume of aphorisms, elegies, and luminous meditations captures Dillard at his most masterful: deeply spiritual yet grounded in the physical world, playful yet profound. Each poem is a window into the poet’s lifelong conversation with nature, desire, and self-acceptance—an ongoing dialogue between the ecstatic and the earthly.

As Philip F. Clark (The Carnival of Affection) notes, Dillard’s writing evokes the introspective wisdom of Rumi and the Transcendentalists, blending rumination and revelation into a uniquely tender art. And as Ken Ilgunas (Walden on Wheels) observes, Dillard’s work “drip drips reverence and irreverence, silliness and profundity onto the page,” offering solace and clarity for those seeking stillness in a chaotic world.

Equal parts celebration and confession, Black Mountain Poems invites readers to wander through the poet’s inner and outer landscapes—lush with memory, longing, and hard-won peace. It’s a collection to savor slowly, like the sound of rain against a cabin roof in the Blue Ridge night.