{"product_id":"icelight-paperback-1","title":"Icelight - 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\u003eRanjit Hoskote\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIcelight\u003c\/i\u003e, Ranjit Hoskote's eighth collection of poems, enacts the experience of standing at the edge--of a life, a landscape, a world assuming new contours or going up in flames. Yet, the protagonists of these poems also stand at the edge of epiphany. In the title poem, we meet the Neolithic cave-dweller who, dazzled by a shapeshifting nature, crafts the first icon. The 'I' of these poems is not a sovereign 'I'. A questing, questioning voice, it locates itself in the web of life, in relation to the cosmos. In 'Tacet', the speaker asks: \"What if I had\/ no skin\/ Of what\/ am I the barometer?\" Long committed to the Japanese\u003ci\u003e mono no aware\u003c\/i\u003e aesthetic, Hoskote embraces talismans, premonitions, fossils: active residues from the previous lives of people and places. \u003ci\u003eIcelight\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about transitions and departures, eloquent in its acceptance of transience in the face of mortality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAubade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRumours of wind, banners of cloud.\u003cbr\u003eThe low earth shakes but the storm\u003cbr\u003ehas not arrived. You pack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efor the journey, look up, look through\u003cbr\u003ethe doors at trees shedding their leaves\u003cbr\u003etoo soon, a track on which silk shoes\u003cbr\u003ewould be wasted, a moon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003estill dangling above a boat.\u003cbr\u003eWearing your salt mask, you face\u003cbr\u003ethe mulberry shadows.\u003cbr\u003eThe valley into which\u003cbr\u003eyou're rappelling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRANJIT HOSKOTE (Bombay, India) is a poet, cultural theorist, and curator. This year he was honored with the 7th Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Poetry Award by the Jaipur Literature Festival. His seven collections of poetry include \u003ci\u003eVanishing Acts: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems, Central Time, Jonahwhale\u003c\/i\u003e (published by Arc in the UK as \u003ci\u003eThe Atlas of Lost Beliefs\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation in 2020 and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eHunchprose\u003c\/i\u003e. His poems have been translated into German, Hindi, Bengali, Irish Gaelic, Marathi, Swedish, Spanish, and Arabic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350835708153,"sku":"9780819500557","price":17.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MkJpRVBXQTErUndLUDJVcmdvbjNFZz09_57d294cd-21d6-4a7c-915a-c61b16ce92b5.webp?v=1769790368","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/icelight-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}