Because of the Light

by Roseann Lloyd

Roseann Lloyd's new collection is a book written by a confident American poet at the height of her powers. Lloyd enters the lives of people on several continents, then creates poems that balance and juxtapose northern and southern light; lyric joy and reports of injustice; myths and stories, told to her by people she met on her travels. In poetic forms from western and eastern traditions--such as the ghazal, the prose poem--Lloyd writes of love, poverty,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093010045X
• ISBN13: 9780930100452
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Holy Cow Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A verbal and literary canvas rich with detail

Because Of The Light is a work of free-verse poetry that transforms author Roseann Lloyd's experiences in Guatemala and Norway, as well as her own familiar background in the American Midwest, into a verbal and literary canvas rich with detail, introspection, and eye-opening revelation. A moving, rhythmically written and vibrant account. White Nights: Another Woman of the North Talking: These are magical nights, these white nights/after the long winter sleep when nobody/wants to sleep. Look how we keep sitting/and talking, long after the barbecue has died down--/the cousins, the grandkids, the hired man/who came to help put up the hay--/everyone awake! Look at the purple lupine!/The haze over the valley!/Who can bear to go in the house?/....One thing you can know for sure./It will be an eternity until the sun disappears/behind the mountains. It will be/an eternity until the snow/fills your window/instead of sweet blossoming hedge.