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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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How the Light is Spent

How the Light is Spent

Sobat, Gail Sidonie

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0986547395
ISBN13: 9780986547393
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 20 2013
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
How the Light is Spent is a meditation on love and loss, on time and tempo. From the Drumheller Badlands to Istanbul, Turkey and back to Canada, Gail Sidonie Sobat scores the light and the shadow of human relationships, composing an etude of how best to mark our allotted time. The first section, Badlands, constructs a narrative of a young couple in love who are eventually divided by war and tragedy, their story so poignant it never quite leaves the remaining pages. The middle collection of poems, entitled Sailing to Byzantium, sweeps readers across the ocean and drops them squarely into the heat and noise of an Istanbul market. A piercing impression of longing permeates this section, troubling the finality of the first narrative, as if the lover's grief is embodied, restless. The third section, How the Light is Spent, replaces the exotic locale of the mid-section with more familiar scenes, at least for Canadian readers. The collection ends with a final cadence of poems revealing an almost familiar soul who attempts to cheat autumn, all the while dancing onwards with time. Gail Sidonie Sobat's work has been variously described as beautiful...and concise...at times sexy, and always quite human.

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