Book Launch: Robert Fanning's "All We Are Given We Cannot Hold"

Come on out to celebrate the local launch of "All We Are Given We Cannot Hold," a collection of poems by Robert Fanning. Copies (hot off the presses!) will be available for purchase at the event, or can be preordered here: https://www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p/all-we-are-given

The evening will feature a short reading from the book, as well as Q and A and book signing. This is a free event and all are welcome!

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All We Are Given We Cannot Hold, Robert Fanning’s fifth collection of poetry, bravely traverses wide vistas of personal and universal terrain, exploring coast and horizon for what holds us and for what we cannot hold. Exploring boundaries of love, identity and desire, of marriage and family, of human compassion and enmity, of what is given us and what we make, the journey ends with elegies for the poet’s mother, looking through her death toward what in us is boundless, toward where the infinite begins. For fans of Dylan Thomas and Theodore Roethke, this is a lyric collection not to be missed—a core sample from the middle of life, with all of its comings and goings and grievings.

Publication Date: December 9, 2025
Paperback
ISBN: 9781938603501

“For the poet, no skill is more of service than observation—what is there, what once was and will be, where love left a mark. In this regard, Robert Fanning looks up to very few.”

—Foreword Reviews / "All We Are Given We Cannot Hold"

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