| The Opposite of Light: Poems Contributor(s): Grey, Kimberly (Author) |
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ISBN: 0892554711 ISBN-13: 9780892554713 Publisher: Persea Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2015034510 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.8" W x 8.8" (0.30 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Can the notion of Romantic love withstand our endless postmodern moment? In these extraordinary poems, Kimberly Grey explores our abiding need for neatness, order, and symmetry in matrimony, considering our ideals for love and language in this digital age--its weightless, distracting, and inescapable pressures. She portrays the ways in which love reflects us back to ourselves: familiar but strange, predetermined but new. There is "a drop of blue light," she writes. "But no high-tech way / to say you're mine. No way to love / each other but with these ancient bodies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Grey, Kimberly: - Kimberly Grey, a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow, is Marsh McCall Lecturer in Continuing Studies at Stanford University. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, A Public Space, Tin House, and elsewhere. |