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Light in Light

by Deborah Gerrish
Hardcover |English |149824095X | 9781498240956

Light in Light

by Deborah Gerrish
Hardcover |English |149824095X | 9781498240956
Overview

Light in Light paints a river of illumined images highlighting the author's compilation of experiences, emotions, and memories as not only being grist for the poems, but illustrating a living and breathing record of the poet's personal journey. Whether it is pondering the delights of childhood with its remembrances and long imagination, or later in life, being immersed in suffering, there is witnessing and validation. These conversational poems, chock-full with confessions of faith, are immersed in magic and music, rich imagery, and well-crafted design. The poet plunges into living out the ordinary through the extraordinary, by breathing in the secrets of the peony, the magnolia, the music of the dream. The poet waits for dawn, and for hope that liberates the soul through the natural world, with its transforming spiritual impact. This collection of poems is about health to the bones, the heart, the spirit, and it is through suffering and longing that the tattered soul is unlatched and liberated. As the poet scrutinizes the world, she sees with a creative eye. She scans her past and present with a wide lens, as a noticer of details and particulars, through the poetic expression of enlightening images and metaphors. ""'A certain kind of dazzle' inhabits Gerrish's endlessly lovely lines--'snug like stepping into wool slippers on Sunday morning'--yet also ravishingly lit by spirit, by storm, by magic. 'October air turning crisp like white transparent apples' or a father's voice 'like soft thunder'--line by line, phrase by phrase, metaphor by metaphor, from girlhood memories to elegy to ancestors' memories of genocide, Light in Light is one of the strongest, most delicate, visionary, and humane collections of American poetry I know."" --Alicia Ostriker, author of The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog ""As suggested by one poem's title--'Odes and Elegies'--Deborah Gerrish captures the love of the sacred world, while mourning her losses. Here her backwards glance at her family's history of escape and the death of her loved ones is balanced by her love of beauty and the mysteries of the natural world in which the everyday is extraordinary."" --Anne Marie Macari, author of Red Deer ""These tender and important poems explore a personal history the way a brilliant mineral vein runs through stone. Light in Light sustains a narrative that simultaneously divides and unifies voices of mothers, daughters, and parents in an American nostalgia set against the backdrop of a generation that escaped the Turkish killing fields of 1915. These poems walk the boundaries of old and new, of nature and prayer, and intuitively divine the light hidden in everything."" --Sean Nevin, author of Oblivio Gate Deborah Gerrish is an award winning poet and author of The Language of Rain (2008) and The Language of Paisley (2012). She was awarded an Edward Fry Fellowship for scholarship research work at Rutgers University where she received her EdD in Literacy Education, and holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. She teaches poetry workshops at Fairleigh Dickinson University and resides in New Jersey with her husband, Jim, and cat, Shakespeare.
ISBN: 149824095X
ISBN13: 9781498240956
Author: Deborah Gerrish
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Format: Hardcover
PublicationDate: 2017-08-02
Language: English
PageCount: 96
Dimensions: 5.98 x 0.25 x 9.02 inches
Weight: 10.56 ounces

Light in Light paints a river of illumined images highlighting the author's compilation of experiences, emotions, and memories as not only being grist for the poems, but illustrating a living and breathing record of the poet's personal journey. Whether it is pondering the delights of childhood with its remembrances and long imagination, or later in life, being immersed in suffering, there is witnessing and validation. These conversational poems, chock-full with confessions of faith, are immersed in magic and music, rich imagery, and well-crafted design. The poet plunges into living out the ordinary through the extraordinary, by breathing in the secrets of the peony, the magnolia, the music of the dream. The poet waits for dawn, and for hope that liberates the soul through the natural world, with its transforming spiritual impact. This collection of poems is about health to the bones, the heart, the spirit, and it is through suffering and longing that the tattered soul is unlatched and liberated. As the poet scrutinizes the world, she sees with a creative eye. She scans her past and present with a wide lens, as a noticer of details and particulars, through the poetic expression of enlightening images and metaphors. ""'A certain kind of dazzle' inhabits Gerrish's endlessly lovely lines--'snug like stepping into wool slippers on Sunday morning'--yet also ravishingly lit by spirit, by storm, by magic. 'October air turning crisp like white transparent apples' or a father's voice 'like soft thunder'--line by line, phrase by phrase, metaphor by metaphor, from girlhood memories to elegy to ancestors' memories of genocide, Light in Light is one of the strongest, most delicate, visionary, and humane collections of American poetry I know."" --Alicia Ostriker, author of The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog ""As suggested by one poem's title--'Odes and Elegies'--Deborah Gerrish captures the love of the sacred world, while mourning her losses. Here her backwards glance at her family's history of escape and the death of her loved ones is balanced by her love of beauty and the mysteries of the natural world in which the everyday is extraordinary."" --Anne Marie Macari, author of Red Deer ""These tender and important poems explore a personal history the way a brilliant mineral vein runs through stone. Light in Light sustains a narrative that simultaneously divides and unifies voices of mothers, daughters, and parents in an American nostalgia set against the backdrop of a generation that escaped the Turkish killing fields of 1915. These poems walk the boundaries of old and new, of nature and prayer, and intuitively divine the light hidden in everything."" --Sean Nevin, author of Oblivio Gate Deborah Gerrish is an award winning poet and author of The Language of Rain (2008) and The Language of Paisley (2012). She was awarded an Edward Fry Fellowship for scholarship research work at Rutgers University where she received her EdD in Literacy Education, and holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. She teaches poetry workshops at Fairleigh Dickinson University and resides in New Jersey with her husband, Jim, and cat, Shakespeare.

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Overview

Light in Light paints a river of illumined images highlighting the author's compilation of experiences, emotions, and memories as not only being grist for the poems, but illustrating a living and breathing record of the poet's personal journey. Whether it is pondering the delights of childhood with its remembrances and long imagination, or later in life, being immersed in suffering, there is witnessing and validation. These conversational poems, chock-full with confessions of faith, are immersed in magic and music, rich imagery, and well-crafted design. The poet plunges into living out the ordinary through the extraordinary, by breathing in the secrets of the peony, the magnolia, the music of the dream. The poet waits for dawn, and for hope that liberates the soul through the natural world, with its transforming spiritual impact. This collection of poems is about health to the bones, the heart, the spirit, and it is through suffering and longing that the tattered soul is unlatched and liberated. As the poet scrutinizes the world, she sees with a creative eye. She scans her past and present with a wide lens, as a noticer of details and particulars, through the poetic expression of enlightening images and metaphors. ""'A certain kind of dazzle' inhabits Gerrish's endlessly lovely lines--'snug like stepping into wool slippers on Sunday morning'--yet also ravishingly lit by spirit, by storm, by magic. 'October air turning crisp like white transparent apples' or a father's voice 'like soft thunder'--line by line, phrase by phrase, metaphor by metaphor, from girlhood memories to elegy to ancestors' memories of genocide, Light in Light is one of the strongest, most delicate, visionary, and humane collections of American poetry I know."" --Alicia Ostriker, author of The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog ""As suggested by one poem's title--'Odes and Elegies'--Deborah Gerrish captures the love of the sacred world, while mourning her losses. Here her backwards glance at her family's history of escape and the death of her loved ones is balanced by her love of beauty and the mysteries of the natural world in which the everyday is extraordinary."" --Anne Marie Macari, author of Red Deer ""These tender and important poems explore a personal history the way a brilliant mineral vein runs through stone. Light in Light sustains a narrative that simultaneously divides and unifies voices of mothers, daughters, and parents in an American nostalgia set against the backdrop of a generation that escaped the Turkish killing fields of 1915. These poems walk the boundaries of old and new, of nature and prayer, and intuitively divine the light hidden in everything."" --Sean Nevin, author of Oblivio Gate Deborah Gerrish is an award winning poet and author of The Language of Rain (2008) and The Language of Paisley (2012). She was awarded an Edward Fry Fellowship for scholarship research work at Rutgers University where she received her EdD in Literacy Education, and holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. She teaches poetry workshops at Fairleigh Dickinson University and resides in New Jersey with her husband, Jim, and cat, Shakespeare.
ISBN: 149824095X
ISBN13: 9781498240956
Author: Deborah Gerrish
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Format: Hardcover
PublicationDate: 2017-08-02
Language: English
PageCount: 96
Dimensions: 5.98 x 0.25 x 9.02 inches
Weight: 10.56 ounces

Light in Light paints a river of illumined images highlighting the author's compilation of experiences, emotions, and memories as not only being grist for the poems, but illustrating a living and breathing record of the poet's personal journey. Whether it is pondering the delights of childhood with its remembrances and long imagination, or later in life, being immersed in suffering, there is witnessing and validation. These conversational poems, chock-full with confessions of faith, are immersed in magic and music, rich imagery, and well-crafted design. The poet plunges into living out the ordinary through the extraordinary, by breathing in the secrets of the peony, the magnolia, the music of the dream. The poet waits for dawn, and for hope that liberates the soul through the natural world, with its transforming spiritual impact. This collection of poems is about health to the bones, the heart, the spirit, and it is through suffering and longing that the tattered soul is unlatched and liberated. As the poet scrutinizes the world, she sees with a creative eye. She scans her past and present with a wide lens, as a noticer of details and particulars, through the poetic expression of enlightening images and metaphors. ""'A certain kind of dazzle' inhabits Gerrish's endlessly lovely lines--'snug like stepping into wool slippers on Sunday morning'--yet also ravishingly lit by spirit, by storm, by magic. 'October air turning crisp like white transparent apples' or a father's voice 'like soft thunder'--line by line, phrase by phrase, metaphor by metaphor, from girlhood memories to elegy to ancestors' memories of genocide, Light in Light is one of the strongest, most delicate, visionary, and humane collections of American poetry I know."" --Alicia Ostriker, author of The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog ""As suggested by one poem's title--'Odes and Elegies'--Deborah Gerrish captures the love of the sacred world, while mourning her losses. Here her backwards glance at her family's history of escape and the death of her loved ones is balanced by her love of beauty and the mysteries of the natural world in which the everyday is extraordinary."" --Anne Marie Macari, author of Red Deer ""These tender and important poems explore a personal history the way a brilliant mineral vein runs through stone. Light in Light sustains a narrative that simultaneously divides and unifies voices of mothers, daughters, and parents in an American nostalgia set against the backdrop of a generation that escaped the Turkish killing fields of 1915. These poems walk the boundaries of old and new, of nature and prayer, and intuitively divine the light hidden in everything."" --Sean Nevin, author of Oblivio Gate Deborah Gerrish is an award winning poet and author of The Language of Rain (2008) and The Language of Paisley (2012). She was awarded an Edward Fry Fellowship for scholarship research work at Rutgers University where she received her EdD in Literacy Education, and holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. She teaches poetry workshops at Fairleigh Dickinson University and resides in New Jersey with her husband, Jim, and cat, Shakespeare.

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  • Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable.

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Shipping method varies depending on what is being shipped.  

Tracking
All orders are shipped with a tracking number. Once your order has left our warehouse, a confirmation e-mail with a tracking number will be sent to you. You will be able to track your package at all times. 

Damaged Parcel
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If you have any questions regarding shipping or want to know about the status of an order, please contact us or email to support@stevensbooks.com.

You may return most items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund.

To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.

Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.

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  • Gift cards
  • Downloadable software products
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To complete your return, we require a tracking number, which shows the items which you already returned to us.
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Items returned to us as a result of our error will receive a full refund,some returns may be subject to a restocking fee of 7% of the total item price, please contact a customer care team member to see if your return is subject. Returns that arrived on time and were as described are subject to a restocking fee.

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