{"product_id":"9781682262498","title":"The Trouble with Light by Jeremy Michael Clark","description":"In The Trouble with Light, Jeremy Michael Clark reflects on the legacy of familial trauma as he delves into questions about belonging, survival, knowledge, and self-discovery in unflinching lyrical poems. \"Like you,\" he writes, \"I have . . . [a] history of \/ hardly caring for my body, of letting \/ whoever drink their share of me, \/ thinking it could cure \/ my fear of dirt.\" Whether ruminating on intimacy, lineage, identity, faith, or addiction, Clark's poems embody a restless, rigorous curiosity. Largely set in the poet's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, his portraits of interiority gracefully juxtapose the sorrows of alienation and self-neglect with the restorative power of human connection. In one of the most affectionate-and characteristically ambivalent-poems in the collection, Clark recalls, \"For days, doubt struck as does lightning \/ across the span of night. . . . Love? If it exists, \/ it's the uncertainty one feels before a thunderclap, \/ after the sky's gone dark again.\" A vulnerable and transporting debut, The Trouble with Light is a vital record of how grief can endure, and how we can yet endure ourselves.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302407450997,"sku":"9781682262498","price":21.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781682262498.jpg?v=1762792614","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781682262498","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}