The Trouble with Light
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The Trouble with Light

  1. 76 pages
  2. English
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The Trouble with Light

About this book

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.
 

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Information

Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781682262498
eBook ISBN
9781610758185
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Series Editor’s Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Memory, Flooding Back
  8. A Partial List of Effects
  9. How Does It Feel?
  10. Never Just One
  11. I Learned My Name Was Not My Name
  12. Some Call It Artificial
  13. Dear Darkness
  14. In the Hometown I’ve Tried to Love
  15. Rerun
  16. How Easily They Slap
  17. Whole Life
  18. *
  19. State of Denial
  20. What’s Left
  21. Words of Warning
  22. Fixing to Die
  23. Those That Flew
  24. This Waterfall Could Never Still
  25. And Just Like That River, I’ve Been Running
  26. The Men, as I Remember Them
  27. Last Night in Louisville
  28. Now You See It
  29. The South Got Something to Say
  30. Whatever Vehicle Gets You Through
  31. *
  32. One Fire, Quenched with Another
  33. *
  34. Southern Drawl
  35. Independence Day
  36. You Have to Go Away to Come Back
  37. Baxter, between Highland and Payne
  38. (I Am) My Father’s Son
  39. After the Crest
  40. Doing the Work
  41. There’s No Ignoring It Now
  42. No Angel
  43. Golden Hour
  44. *
  45. One Year Sober
  46. In the Hometown I’ve Tried to Love
  47. What I See When I Stare Long Enough into Nothing
  48. Still I Dream about Birds
  49. Unauthorized Autobiography
  50. Other, Entirely
  51. Home
  52. *
  53. They Bolted and Brought Him Low
  54. Notes