Rebecca McClanahan
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Deep Light
New and Selected Poems
1987-2007

ISBN 978-0-916078-99-7
$14.00 soft cover



Deep Light

Deep Light is not a poetry collection, if collection implies a mere gathering of similar objects. Nor is it a chronological compilation
of work from the author’s previous books. The poems in Deep Light have been selected and arranged to create a continuous, unified text. Like McClanahan’s description of gray doves “tipping across the gravel/ their shadows pumping before them,” the poems move forward in an alternating dance of light and shade. In the brightest places of our world, suggests this poet, grief and loss cast their shadows. But even in the darkest places, light makes its way.

Selections from Deep Light:
Hear Garrison Keillor read "Autobiography of the Cab Driver... "
Hear Garrison Keillor read "Visit with the Newlyweds"
"Making Love"
"In the Face Of"



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