{"product_id":"when-there-was-light-9781954245426","title":"When There Was Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e While Hoffman's debut collection interrogated the mythos built around grief, inhabiting an Alaska of the mind, her stunning sophomore collection \u003ci\u003eWhen There Was Light\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the past for what it was.These poems map out a topography where global movements of diaspora and war live alongside personal reckonings: a house's foreclosure, parents' divorce, the indelible night spent drunk with a best friend \"[lying] down inside a chronic row of corn.\" Here, her father's voice \"is the stray dog barking \/ at the snow, believing the little strawberries grow wilder \/ against a field.\" In these pages, she points to Russia and Poland and Germany, saying, \"It was \/ another time. My people \/ another time. The synagogues burn decades \/ of new snow.\" The brilliance of this collection illuminates the relationship between memory and language; \"another time\" means different, back then, gone and lost to us, and it means over and over, always, again. With this linguistic dexterity and lyrical tenderness, Hoffman's work bridges private and public histories, reminding us of the years cloaked in shadows and the years when there was light. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Carlie Hoffman lives in Brooklyn and is the author of one previous collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThis Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the NCPA Gold Award in poetry and a finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. A poet and translator, her honors include a \"Discovery\" \/ \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e prize and a \u003ci\u003ePoet's \u0026amp; Writers \u003c\/i\u003eAmy Award. Carlie is the founder and editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eSmall Orange Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50706407358738,"sku":"9781954245426","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a32df71b-6b22-4956-9372-b1c180b876e8.jpg?v=1734490850","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/when-there-was-light-9781954245426","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}