Stephen Fife

Wild Dogs Stephen Fife

Wild Dogs: Poems of War and Resilience covers over 50 years of Steve Fife's poetry, from 1969-2022, including powerful current reflections on the Ukrainian crisis. It is a companion book to Courbet's Blue Parrot: Poems of Love and Sex, also published by ShiftPoetry Press, and also covering half a century of Fife's sexy to soulful engagement with women. Wild Dogs is a book about the search for The Real and The True in human existence. A search for something to believe in, in the absence of God or religious orthodoxy. A search for a beauty in life that matches the beauty of the human spirit. A search for reasons to keep hoping after witnessing years of War and human conflict, the slaughter of innocents, the pain that people inflict on one another. And through it all there is laughter-grim, sad, hilarious. Laughter that heals many wounds. Laughter that is the only way to keep the Wild Dogs of Darkness at bay.



"Stephen Fife, who completed his 10,000 hours decades ago, is a life-wisened, hopelessly romantic, funny sonuvabitch." - Stephen Adly Guirgis, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright