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ABIDE
Ashland Poetry Press * September 2026
Abide is a collection that confronts mortality—illness, loss, and the passage of time—while insisting on the sustaining power of love, attention, and care. Moving between humor and grief, the poems ask how we go on, and answer with a hard-won practice of presence and praise.
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Praise for Abide
Praise all who wait in the dark, uncertain
of the light. Praise what watches us
through the frozen night.
Abide is a book attentive to the world and the movement of thought, with a keen awareness of mortality. Despite suffering and loss, Landon finds meaning and hope, and even joy, in the daily ways we can connect to and care for each other. As she notes, The garden / is there: still, always. / And the sword. Whether mourning a family member, a dog, or the irreversible passage of time, these poems ask us to remember that whenever we can, we must, as Adam Zagajewski wrote, “try to praise the mutilated world.” It’s no easy task to acknowledge the forces against that stance, yet time and again it happens in this compassionate collection. I’m grateful to have this book to remind me.
— Kim Addonizio, 2025 Richard Snyder Prize Judge
We love what we love for as long as we can, writes K. T. Landon in Abide. And how can you not love a debut collection built from five decades of carefully cached observations, sharp humor, and hard won wisdom? As much a book of loss, as a book of grief, as a book of navigating, renewing, and appreciating long love, Abide is a record of and a guide for a life well-lived, one that fully acknowledges mortality while still insisting on joy. …what we had was made of time. / That it could not last was always the point.
— JESSICA JACOBS, 2025 GUGGENHEIM FELLOW
Gravitas, wisdom, song and strong skill. If you want the real deal, you’ve come to the right place. Abide may be K. T. Landon’s first full-length collection but it is by no means her first rodeo. She is, and has been for a while now, one of my favorite poets… And I am overjoyed that you, Reader, hold in your hands, finally, an opportunity to catch up!
— JOHN MURILLO, Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
Abide
by K. T. Landon
Ashland Poetry Press
September 2026
Paperback
92 pages
ISBN 978-1-964957-03-6
$17.95