{"product_id":"icelight-9780819500533","title":"Icelight","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIcelight\u003c\/i\u003e, Ranjit Hoskote's eighth collection of poems, enacts the experience of standing at the edge--of a life, a landscape, a world assuming new contours or going up in flames. Yet, the protagonists of these poems also stand at the edge of epiphany. In the title poem, we meet the Neolithic cave-dweller who, dazzled by a shapeshifting nature, crafts the first icon. The 'I' of these poems is not a sovereign 'I'. A questing, questioning voice, it locates itself in the web of life, in relation to the cosmos. In 'Tacet', the speaker asks: \"What if I had\/ no skin\/ Of what\/ am I the barometer?\" Long committed to the Japanese\u003ci\u003e mono no aware\u003c\/i\u003e aesthetic, Hoskote embraces talismans, premonitions, fossils: active residues from the previous lives of people and places. \u003ci\u003eIcelight\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about transitions and departures, eloquent in its acceptance of transience in the face of mortality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAubade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRumours of wind, banners of cloud.\u003cbr\u003eThe low earth shakes but the storm\u003cbr\u003ehas not arrived. You pack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efor the journey, look up, look through\u003cbr\u003ethe doors at trees shedding their leaves\u003cbr\u003etoo soon, a track on which silk shoes\u003cbr\u003ewould be wasted, a moon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003estill dangling above a boat.\u003cbr\u003eWearing your salt mask, you face\u003cbr\u003ethe mulberry shadows.\u003cbr\u003eThe valley into which\u003cbr\u003eyou're rappelling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819500533\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs","brand":"Ranjit Hoskote","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729526689973,"sku":"9780819500533","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_02acc5eb-56a3-4b51-bdf5-fb902e2f11ce.jpg?v=1675803160","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/icelight-9780819500533","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}