Forged Light: Poems - Softcover

Lloyd, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983147116 ISBN 13: 9780983147114

Publisher: Open Field Pr, 2013

Synopsis

Poetry. Art. FORGED LIGHT by Margaret Lloyd is a collection of poems which circle around life's ambiguities, mysteries, and losses on the one hand; and the struggle to keep desire and imagination alive on the other. There is a continual sense of living on many levels simultaneously, even of living in two worlds—one which is quotidian and concrete; the other verging on the mythological and spiritual. While the majority of the poems are written organically, the collection also includes a number of formal poems. Ekphrastic and persona poems are interlaced throughout. The poet is also a watercolor painter, and a unique aspect of this collection is that each of the five sections of the book is introduced by a reprint of a painting, setting the tone for the poems to come.

"I've always been impressed by the consistent high quality of Margaret Lloyd's poems. The matter is always substantial, and always accompanied by her excellent craft. She has a distinctive voice, but in addition the voice is supple. The poems are nuanced beyond themselves. They create a lasting resonance. They produce an oddness that works as a shadow and multiplier of something elusive and foreign under the decorum."—Jack Gilbert

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About the Author

Margaret Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England of Welsh parents and grew up in a Welsh community in central New York State. FORGED LIGHT is her third collection of poems. Alice James Books brought out her first collection, This Particular Earthly Scene. Plinth Books published A MOMENT IN THE FIELD: VOICES FROM ARTHURIAN LEGEND (2006). In addition, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press published William Carlos Williams' Paterson: A Critical Reappraisal, now considered seminal in the field. Her poetry honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, fellowships to Breadloaf and to Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, and a writing residency at Yaddo where she worked on the poems in FORGED LIGHT. A poet and painter, Lloyd is Professor of English at Springfield College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open Field Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983147116
• ISBN 13: 9780983147114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96