Where the Light Waits

Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
Product Code: YB02147
ISBN: 0921215967
Author: Susan Ioannou
Condition: Used Like New

Price: $26.99

Book in excellent condition. 1st Edition

In Where the Light Waits, Susan Ioannou pulls together light and shadows, stray thoughts and unravelled feelings, past and future, and listens for the silences resonating between, for that hint of asymmetrical order. Her poems begin with a series of meditations on what makes a life civilized, then range through the dark side of wars in Iraq, the Balkans, and Rwanda. The second half of the book explores either end of the human span, from the thoughtfulness and coming to terms that ageing inspires, to a celebration of perpetual renewal in poems about the young. Throughout, she grapples with large issues: What gives life meaning? How does the spirit survive evil? Can permanence and flux be reconciled? As accurate to violets and a cedar fence post as to oil spills, steel beams, and the raw edge of pain, ultimately her writing is optimistic, reaching through the personal 'I' toward a compassionate universality.
Binding
Paperback  
Edition
2002 1st Edition
Condition
Used Like New
Language
English