Combining incantation, elegy, documentary poetics, and lyric memoir, this book is a raw recounting of the author's mother's tragic death entwined with a book-length meditation on light, language, and lineage"--
Incantation and elegy shine through one another in this extraordinary poetic memoirWhen poet Danielle Vogel began writing meditations on the syntax of earthen and astral light, she had no idea that her mother's tragic death would eclipse the writing of that book, turning her attention to grief's syntax and quiet fields of cellular light in the form of memory. Written in elegant, crystalline prose poems, A Library of Light is a memoir that begi...
Edges & Fray uses words and photographs to explore the intimacy of language, and how we use language to build shelters. The book contains beautiful original photographs of ornithological specimens-nests"--