{"product_id":"nothing-but-light-barbara-schwartz-9781939530240","title":"Nothing But Light: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I admire this collaborative collection for its intensity, its formal rigor, and for the many worlds it reveals as it negotiates the space between language, the body, and the divine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Here is a poetry that does not stand still as it powers its way through the propulsive rhythms of time.\" - Daniel Borzutzky, \u003cem\u003eThe Performance of Becoming Human\u003c\/em\u003e (National Book Award) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNothing But Light explores the sacred feminine through the poets' shared visits to places and people of spiritual revelation-a mosque, a temple, a shaman, a tree. Its poems form a guidebook to expansive and numinous spaces of body and spirit. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'm compelled by the vulnerability of these collaborative poems, how they powerfully articulate bodily experiences: the erotic, childbirth, a cancer diagnosis, chemo, miscarriage: \"My blood has dried out \/ I write with air.\" The poets pay unusual attention to the divine, writing poems that are a form of prayer (sometimes irreverent), as they invoke and invent a pantheon of female deities, drawing from Judeo-Christian and world mythology. \u003cstrong\u003eRuminating on mortality, they memorably ask, 'What matters the temporary \/ Habit of skin and bones?'\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - Rachel Galvin, \u003cem\u003eElevated Threat Level, \u003c\/em\u003e (finalist for National Poetry Series and Alice James Books' Kinereth Gensler Award)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a song: a rolling, rollicking dialogue with emerging selves as they take their place in a textured female lineage, confirming a \"world-blown pregnancy.\" \u003cstrong\u003eIn poems that move from the ecological to the erotic, Leahy and Schwartz re-wild the feminine, invoking the divine while grounding themselves firmly in the work of the body\u003c\/strong\u003e: 'what if goddess is the in. The way through. \/\/ Relationship itself.'\" - Joe Pan, \u003cem\u003eOperating Systems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Schwartz, Krista J. H. Leahy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939530245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939530240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Circling Rivers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Barbara Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44074279665919,"sku":"9781939530240","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7e8fe206-e8c7-4f61-b70e-7116a78611bc.jpg?v=1685452836","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nothing-but-light-barbara-schwartz-9781939530240","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}