{"product_id":"luminous-body-glittering-ash-paperback","title":"Luminous Body, Glittering Ash - 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\u003eC. W. Emerson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLana Hechtman Ayers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor in Chief)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I was falling in love with the world, and everything in the world was dying,\" writes C.W. Emerson in \u003cem\u003eLuminous Body, Glittering Ash\u003c\/em\u003e. A reader will be drawn in by the narrator's compelling voice in this lyric narrative that captures a moment in history when a man caretakes the lives of those dearest to him, even in the midst of a pandemic, and though he might hope to save them all, it is not within his hands to hold them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Sandra Alcosser, author of \u003cem\u003eA Fish to Feed All Hunger \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eExcept by Nature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a poignant, fine-wrought book of poise and lamentation-by turns, erotic, austere, and lyrical- with a keen attention to natural beauty. Its centerpiece poems, \"The Impossible Time\" and \"Coldwater Canyon Suite,\" convey the saga of what it meant to be young, gallant, and compassless in the shocking early years of the AIDS epidemic. Because that was my experience as well, reading C.W. Emerson's \u003cem\u003eLuminous Body, Glittering Ash \u003c\/em\u003emade for a powerful aide-mémoire of that daunting, heartbreaking era. Emerson's intrepid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esurvivor's task, his elegiac portraiture and vivid witness pierce us out of necessity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Cyrus Cassells, 2021 Poet Laureate of Texas and author of \u003cem\u003eThe World That the Shooter Left Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe radiant from which \u003cem\u003eLuminous Body, Glittering Ash \u003c\/em\u003eemanates is the body's own perishable luminosity, these poems the lyric record of the body's trajectory as a falling star-meteoric, brief-during the height of the AIDS pandemic. Like those meteors, Emerson convinces us, our transits leave a crypto-crystalline gleam, yet the heart, to be safe, leaves the body, turns invisible, but continues to throw sparks long after it stops. Emerson's deftly trenchant poems never succumb to bathos but pinpoint the l'heure exquise of our fleeting existence and name it, a quality that destines this collection to become a classic in league with Thom Gunn's \u003cem\u003eThe Man with Night Sweats\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Lise Goett, author of \u003cem\u003eLeprosarium\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't know what to say about C.W. Emerson's poems except that they break my heart over and over again, and then again, and in that breakage, there's something luminous, always-as if your ability to be broken, in itself, makes us ever more human, ever more broken, ever more human. These poems are brave and beautiful, crystal clear, and deeply mysterious, they embody the sensual and the sacred, without contradiction, without apology. I'm grateful to have them to read and to remind me what it is to be fully alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Cecilia Woloch, author of \u003cem\u003eTsigan: The Gypsy Poem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 86\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227096432889,"sku":"9781937797102","price":19.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/vzpQkA-ZJ69781937797102.webp?v=1768274393","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/luminous-body-glittering-ash-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}