Hunger for Light

By Stephen Browning

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564744612
• ISBN13: 9781564744616
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Publishers
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A sublime blend of free-verse expression and powerful imagery

Written by Stephen Browning, whose work has appeared in such distinguished literary magazines as "The Southern Review", "Poetry Northwest", and "The Western Humanities Review", and illustrated with striking black-and-white monotypes by museum-exhibited artist Kalani Engles, Hunger for Light is a sublime blend of free-verse expression and powerful imagery. The brief, free-verse poems touch upon both simple and eternal concepts, celebrating human impressions and emotions awakened by the natural world and especially through the lush grandeur of all types of vegetation. "Yes": Maybe it was a lotus / lifting its head above the mud // set Coleridge wishing that / like Vishnu, dreamer of worlds, // he could float, asleep / on the infinite ocean, // cradled in a lotus flower, / and every few million years // wake for a moment / simply to reaffirm // he could go back to sleep / for a few million more.