Name: Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me: Essays from a Poet
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Author: Griffin, Shaun T.
ISBN: 9781948908122

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Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me: Essays from a Poet

Type

Physical Book

Author

Shaun T. Griffin

Publisher

University of Nevada Press

Language

English

Pages

264

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1x16x2 cm

Weight

0.59 kg.

ISBN13

9781948908122

Synopsis "Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me: Essays from a Poet"

"Think of a man walking in the desert," writes Griffin, "looking for the path to its summit, looking for the observatory that may, at last, shed light on what's below." In this luminous and moving book of essays, award-winning author Shaun Griffin weaves together a poetic meditation on living meaningfully in this world. Anchored in the American West but reaching well beyond, he recounts his discoveries as a poet and devoted reader of poetry, a teacher of the disadvantaged, a friend of poets and artists, and a responsible member of the human family. Always grounded in place, be it Nevada, South Africa, North Dakota, Spain, Zimbabwe, or Mexico, Griffin confronts the world with an openness that allows him to learn and grow from the people he meets. This is a meditation on how all of us can confront our own influences to achieve wholeness in our lives. Along with Griffin, readers will reflect on how they might respond to a homeless man walking through central Nevada, viewing the open desert as Thoreau might have viewed Walden, seeing the US-Mexico border as a region of lost identity, reconciling how poets who live west of the Hudson River find anonymity to be their laurel, and experiencing how writing poetry in prison becomes lifesaving. Whether poets or places in the West or beyond, experiences with other cultures, or an acute awareness that poetry is the refuge of redress--all have influenced Griffin's writing and thinking as a poet and activist in the Great Basin. The mindfulness of Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me demonstrates that even though the light does not forgive, it still reveals.

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