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Icelight
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"A collection of poems about transitions and departures, eloquent in their acceptance of transience"-- "Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts t...
"A collection of poems about transitions and departures, eloquent in their acceptance of transience"--
"Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hopeIcelight, 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 mono no aware aesthetic, Hoskote embraces talismans, premonitions, fossils: active residues from the previous lives of people and places. Icelight is a book about transitions and departures, eloquent in its acceptance of transience in the face of mortality. AubadeRumours of wind, banners of cloud.The low earth shakes but the stormhas not arrived. You packfor the journey, look up, look throughthe doors at trees shedding their leavestoo soon, a track on which silk shoeswould be wasted, a moonstill dangling above a boat.Wearing your salt mask, you facethe mulberry shadows.The valley into whichyou're rappellingis you"--
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- Creator
- Ranjit Hoskote
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2023]
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- 106 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780819500540, 9780819500557, 0819500534, 9780819500533, 0819500550
- OCLC
- on1338131769, on1372395171
- Includes bibliographical references
- Machine generated contents note: I. Tacet -- Aubade -- Retreat -- Witness -- Rock -- Noor -- Spur -- Trigger -- Groove -- Fresco -- Breath -- Bed -- II. Eclipse -- Night Ferry -- Runner -- Foreigner -- Sentence -- Wind -- Paishachi -- Apostle -- Redacted -- Postscript -- Crow Hymn -- What Did I Miss? -- III. All Gods Travel -- Call If You're Lost -- Plague -- Juggler -- The Mist Shop -- Planet -- Storefront Self-Portrait -- Swimmer -- Torso -- Dust -- Terminus -- Bait -- IV. Icelight -- Bookmark -- Clock -- Glover -- Still Life with Oranges -- Descant -- Ocean Park -- Slope -- Tune -- Exit -- The Science of Detection -- Miramar -- V. Column / Vidisha -- Ritual -- Temple -- Matinee -- Gravity -- Talisman -- In this Country of Silence -- Monsoon Song -- Title -- Lesson -- Anthem -- Krishna's End -- VI. Catapult -- Departures -- Skeleton -- Under the Southern Cross -- Neighbours -- Fleece -- Mission -- Afternoon Poem -- The Harappan Merchant's Complaint -- Switch -- Roar -- Return