The Opposite of Light Paperback by Kimberly Grey

Product Details

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive (2016-04-19)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 64 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892554713
• Item Weight: 122.47 grams
• Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.0 x 0.2 cm

A revealing scrutiny of contemporary marriage; winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.

Can the notion of Romantic love withstand our endless postmodern moment? In these extraordinary poems, Kimberly Grey explores our abiding need for neatness, order, and symmetry in matrimony, considering our ideals for love and language in this digital age—its weightless, distracting, and inescapable pressures. She portrays the ways in which love reflects us back to ourselves: familiar but strange, predetermined but new. There is “a drop of blue light,” she writes. “But no high-tech way / to say you’re mine. No way to love / each other but with these ancient bodies." 

About the Author

Kimberly Grey is the author of two collections of poetry, Systems for the Future of Feeling and The Opposite of Light, winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, A Public Space, Tin House, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is currently a doctoral student in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati.