The Radiant

by Cynthia Huntington

In Cynthia Huntington's The Radiant, what is most tragic can, and often does, become beautiful. "What/ is memory? Who stays to mourn?/ It seems we feel so much/ and then we die. The marsh hawk/ veers over the grass, listening." Poems about Multiple Sclerosis and domestic turmoil are never drowned in the rhetoric of complaint, but seized by language that is intense yet seeks the equilibrium of its own level: "His loneliness is cold water. that makes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884800491
• ISBN13: 9781884800498
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.4"