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The Lights
The Lights
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The Lights is a collection of poetry by John McPhee that combines verse, prose, voice memos, vignettes, songs, and silences to explore the personal and collective, the natural world, and the power of new technologies. It spans fifteen years and records the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art, family, and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking crises. The book is filled with light, from dusk, space images, old poems, power cuts, and the flickering connections between people, illuminating new possibilities of thought and feeling.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 07 September 2023
Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
"The Lights" is a remarkable collection of poetry from the acclaimed author of "The Topeka School." This dazzling work of art is a constellation of verse, prose, voice memos, vignettes, songs, and silences, seamlessly bringing together the personal and the collective in startling ways. These poems are alive to the forces that shape human society. society and the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new technologies and the wonder of our timeless planet. They range in scale, from intimate and quiet to sweeping and Orphic, exploring the collectivization of feeling and the complexities of human experience.
Written over a span of fifteen years, "The Lights" captures the joys, risks, and absurdities of making art, family, and meaning against the backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises. While it is aware of the darkness, the book remains a beacon of light, shining through in the dusk, in images from space, in old poems, in power cuts, and in the flickering connections between people.
This collection of poems offers us new possibilities of thought and feeling, illuminating the depths of our human experience and reminding us of the resilience and beauty that can be found even in the darkest of times. It is a testament to the power of literature to connect, inspire, and transform us.
Weight: 170g
Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781915051080
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