{"product_id":"skeletal-lights-from-afar-paperback","title":"Skeletal Lights from Afar - 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\u003eForrest Roth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this dazzling collection of miniature tales and poetic prose, Forrest Roth presents six galleries of enigmatic humans drifting across great distances for our consideration, including a suburban neighbor cooking only beets to distract his dark impulses, a detached mother whose child vanishes in an art museum, a lonely Japanese man using his nose to sign letters to his married lover, and many more. Hovering over themes of nature, family, joy, desire and death, Skeletal Lights from Afar carries along the remnants of accidental lives, continuing their mysterious voyage towards a destination as yet unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSkeletal Lights from Afar\u003c\/em\u003e, Forrest Roth's language forms murmurations, each pulsing with interiorities of struggling narrators whose experiences unfold into one another, reflecting infinite impossibilities of a life lived in service of and service to. Roth asks us to think about our relationship to art, duty, the environment, love, strangers, music, and the frailty of human certainty. There are rumbles of Marcus' \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Wire and String\u003c\/em\u003e and Dostoyevsky's \u003cem\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/em\u003e echoing with each strike of Roth's approach; it is as if the work exists in three spheres, the experience of the past, the relevance of the present, and the narrative methodology of a time not yet seen. \u003cem\u003eSkeletal Lights from Afar\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold artistic vision, one you may not be able to put down until you've read it to completion and begun again. - Duncan Barlow, author of \u003cem\u003eA Dog Between Us\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe City, Awake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDear Reader, you will never have read anything quite like the luminous \u003cem\u003eSkeletal Lights from Afar\u003c\/em\u003e, I can promise you that. Within these pieces, you are on a journey through startlingly fresh and exciting territory, which leads you through the natural world, the intellectual world, the small town, and the small room. Within these pieces there is humor and artfulness, but more than that even there is an examination of what it means to feel alone and observational in an ever crowded world. A master of voice, Roth's words become a ghost voice implanted in your psyche which remains long after you reach the end, offering you birds and flesh and bone. Indeed, they offer you the cycle of life, children climbing into bed between their parents to reclaim that shining moment of safety that is so fleeting to the last breath that awaits us all. - Myfanwy Collins, author of \u003cem\u003eI Am Holding Your Hand\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEcholocation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading this new book by Forrest Roth, I kept thinking, \"Here is an original voice.\" Not exactly microfictions or prose poems, they blur those distinctions with meditation and observation and intellect, yet retain movement enough to sustain the tension of story. Forrest Roth has produced an accessible, yet challenging collection that will find an audience. - Gary Fincke, author of The Corridors of Longing and The Sorrows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of these magnificently strange pieces is a world in itself. Together they create a shimmering matrix of expression, insistent as a dream that won't let go. - Dawn Raffel, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Strange Case of Dr. Couney\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn the Year of Long Division\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47257107726585,"sku":"9781733378901","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/1jaCvnu5Wx9781733378901.webp?v=1768742781","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/skeletal-lights-from-afar-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}