In Late Light (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

In Late Light (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

by Brian Swann (Author)

Synopsis

There is a clearing by a certain stonewhere images flow and are worth stopping for. I have stayed there almost all day in silenceuntil night remembered what belonged to it and its shadows started to take back its own.I've found it hard to walk away as starlight infused daisies and the stone itself beganto feel like a star so, although what I have done with my life may not be much, for a whileit seemed to be in line. The poems of In Late Light situate objects and experiences (both large and small, concrete and abstract) within Brian Swann's perspective of the natural world. Sixty-two poems presented in four sections explore his life-from early days to the present-evoking friends and family on two continents. His sharp, bright imagery affirms the unique beauty of our world and explores its invisible mysteries.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 10 Jul 2013

ISBN 10: 1421408562
ISBN 13: 9781421408569
Book Overview: From a stone to fireflies, from childhood to growing old, Brian Swann's poems contemplate the moments and individual objects that create a whole life and our relationship to them.

Media Reviews
[Brian Swann's] work enables us to begin to understand a world which is not merely a reflection of our anxieties and desires, but which is truly different in the signals it sends to us through other people and other entities. -- James Sutherland Smith * Stand Magazine *
Author Bio
Brian Swann is the author of several collections of poems, most recently Autumn Road, winner of The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award and Snow House, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Pleiades Press/LSU Press.