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Earthshine (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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Earthshine (Wesleyan Poetry Series) Paperback - 1988

by David Young


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Earthshine is a book about a wife's illness and death from cancer and the aftermath of grief. It is, necessarily, painful. Yet David Young, is meditating on despair and the loss of love, has found the "day coming up again, the world enacting its own beginnings and everything moving in this earthshine." The clouds and mountains still glisten. The earth is "a crystal where light is sorted and stored," a "tiny beacon in the hurting dark."
But before new light is the dark, and David Young leads the way through the dark carefully, gently, in restrained yet penetrating words, from the shock of discovery ("the first death") to surgery, liver scans, the rude details of disease, the tightening circle of pain, the dwindling body, the spreading sorrow. Then, the search for light--at first there comes "an afterglow of love," then misery starts "to slip away" and a sky displays a blue radiance. "The tears that filled me up fill with light now."

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  • Title Earthshine (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
  • Author David Young
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Wesleyan, Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.A.
  • Date 1988-02
  • ISBN 9780819511485
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Wesleyan University Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 59 pages. Poems grouped in four sections: The Moon-Globe, Nine Deaths, Poem in Three Parts (Broken Field Running / Dancing in the Dark / The Light Show), and The Portable Earth-Lamp. Cover and title-page photo by John Theilgard. Trade paperback, almost no visible wear, hint of foxing to top edge, price written in pencil on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.
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