{"product_id":"how-light-reaches-us-paperback","title":"How Light Reaches Us - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKristin Berger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristin Berger's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Light Reaches Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a finely woven, image-rich exploration of self and landscape that gets to the very core of what poetry is about: language borrowed from the land, yet language of a voice so true that there could be none other. Berger's language, then, is both lovely and lucid, leading us to \"that sharp time of sage \/ blooming from my skirts,\" to the deep knowledge of place found only by keen understanding and her even keener pen. In reading her book, we can't help but become our own wardens of the land because her lyric is so sure, creating in us not just the \"proof,\" as she writes, but the necessary yearning \"of this strange love \/ loping the steppe like hunger.\" It's a hunger nourished throughout the book but not sated until the last fine poem. It's a hunger we need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Simmons Buntin, Editor-in-Chief, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Slip out of the main stem of the world,\" begins Kristin Berger's poem \"Oxbrow.\" \"Detour,\" it lures. This is the journey \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Light Reaches Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etakes us on: into our rapturous interior, revealed through the penetrating gaze of landscape. To be included among these poems is a kind of worship. They reach like great redwoods steeped in season, time and sky. My own animal ache is more vivid and vast as I stand in this glade of interstitial light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Sage Cohen, Author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFierce on the Page\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike the Heart, the World: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354274939129,"sku":"9781639806607","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/hGD2UKbWdQ9781639806607.webp?v=1769833444","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/how-light-reaches-us-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}