The Trouble with Light

Jeremy Michael Clark (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

76 Seiten

2024
University of Arkansas Press (Verlag)
978-1-68226-249-8 (ISBN)

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In The Trouble with Light, Jeremy Michael Clark reflects on the legacy of familial trauma as he delves into questions about belonging, survival, knowledge, and self-discovery in unflinching lyrical poems. “Like you,” he writes, “I have . . . [a] history of / hardly caring for my body, of letting / whoever drink their share of me, / thinking it could cure / my fear of dirt.” Whether ruminating on intimacy, lineage, identity, faith, or addiction, Clark’s poems embody a restless, rigorous curiosity. Largely set in the poet’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, his portraits of interiority gracefully juxtapose the sorrows of alienation and self-neglect with the restorative power of human connection. In one of the most affectionate—and characteristically ambivalent—poems in the collection, Clark recalls, “For days, doubt struck as does lightning / across the span of night. . . . Love? If it exists, / it’s the uncertainty one feels before a thunderclap, / after the sky’s gone dark again.” A vulnerable and transporting debut, The Trouble with Light is a vital record of how grief can endure, and how we can yet endure ourselves.

Jeremy Michael Clark earned his MFA from Rutgers University–Newark and his MSW from the University of Pennsylvania after working as an editorial assistant at Callaloo. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Common, Poem-a-Day, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. His work has also been recognized with support from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Cave Canem, the Community of Writers, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Miller Williams Poetry Prize
Verlagsort	Fayetteville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
ISBN-10	1-68226-249-9 / 1682262499
ISBN-13	978-1-68226-249-8 / 9781682262498
Zustand	Neuware