When There Was Light
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When There Was Light

Carlie Hoffman

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

When There Was Light

Carlie Hoffman

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About This Book

While Hoffman's debut collection interrogated the mythos built around grief, inhabiting an Alaska of the mind, her stunning sophomore collection When There Was Light 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.

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Publisher
Four Way Books
Year
2023
ISBN
9781954245433
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Poesia

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. I
  6. II
  7. III
  8. IV
  9. Notes
  10. Acknowledgments
Citation styles for When There Was Light

APA 6 Citation

Hoffman, C. (2023). When There Was Light ([edition unavailable]). Four Way Books. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3845162 (Original work published 2023)

Chicago Citation

Hoffman, Carlie. (2023) 2023. When There Was Light. [Edition unavailable]. Four Way Books. https://www.perlego.com/book/3845162.

Harvard Citation

Hoffman, C. (2023) When There Was Light. [edition unavailable]. Four Way Books. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3845162 (Accessed: 25 June 2024).

MLA 7 Citation

Hoffman, Carlie. When There Was Light. [edition unavailable]. Four Way Books, 2023. Web. 25 June 2024.