Synopsis
Deep Light is not a poetry collection, if collection implies merely a gathering of similar objects. Nor is it a chronological compilation of work from the author s previous books. The poems in Deep Light have been selected and arranged to create a continuous, unified text. Like McClanahan s description of gray doves tipping across the gravel / their shadows pumping before them, the poems move forward in an alternating dance of light and shade. In the brightest places of our world, suggests this poet, grief and loss cast their shadows. But even in the darkest places, light makes its way.
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About the Author
Rebecca McClanahan is a poet, essayist, fiction writer, and teacher whose literary awards include the Wood prize from Poetry. Her most recent book, a suite of memoir-based essays entitled The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, won the 2005 Glasgow Award. She has also published four previous volumes of poetry and three books about the writing craft, including Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively. McClanahan s work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Essays, The Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, and numerous anthologies. She has received a Pushcart Prize in fiction, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in nonfiction, a P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Award, and (twice) the Carter prize for the essay from Shenandoah. McClanahan, who lives in New York City, teaches in the low-residency MFA Program at Queens University in Charlotte, the Kenyon Review Writing Program and the Hudson Valley Writers Center.
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