{"product_id":"nothing-but-light-poems-9781939530233","title":"Nothing But Light: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I admire this collaborative collection for its intensity, its formal rigor, and for the many worlds it reveals as it negotiates the space between language, the body, and the divine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Here is a poetry that does not stand still as it powers its way through the propulsive rhythms of time.\" - Daniel Borzutzky, \u003cem\u003eThe Performance of Becoming Human\u003c\/em\u003e (National Book Award) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNothing But Light explores the sacred feminine through the poets' shared visits to places and people of spiritual revelation-a mosque, a temple, a shaman, a tree. Its poems form a guidebook to expansive and numinous spaces of body and spirit. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'm compelled by the vulnerability of these collaborative poems, how they powerfully articulate bodily experiences: the erotic, childbirth, a cancer diagnosis, chemo, miscarriage: \"My blood has dried out \/ I write with air.\" The poets pay unusual attention to the divine, writing poems that are a form of prayer (sometimes irreverent), as they invoke and invent a pantheon of female deities, drawing from Judeo-Christian and world mythology. \u003cstrong\u003eRuminating on mortality, they memorably ask, 'What matters the temporary \/ Habit of skin and bones?'\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - Rachel Galvin, \u003cem\u003eElevated Threat Level, \u003c\/em\u003e (finalist for National Poetry Series and Alice James Books' Kinereth Gensler Award)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a song: a rolling, rollicking dialogue with emerging selves as they take their place in a textured female lineage, confirming a \"world-blown pregnancy.\" \u003cstrong\u003eIn poems that move from the ecological to the erotic, Leahy and Schwartz re-wild the feminine, invoking the divine while grounding themselves firmly in the work of the body\u003c\/strong\u003e: 'what if goddess is the in. The way through. \/\/ Relationship itself.'\" - Joe Pan, \u003cem\u003eOperating Systems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Circling Rivers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50486364963090,"sku":"9781939530233","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b4b9181-f005-4b59-9c20-f054e7c8181b.jpg?v=1730427217","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nothing-but-light-poems-9781939530233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}