Elegance in Ruinous Light: Poems and Meditations on Ruin, Time and Illumination (The Hybrid Works) - Softcover
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Elegance in Ruinous Light explores what remains when everything else yields to time, silence, or disappearance. Structured in eight sections, each guided by the spirit of a major poet, the collection gives voice to unlikely narrators: a cathedral speaking of its own fracture, a mirror reflecting broken faces, a grain of salt dissolving, a widow’s lantern, an angel marked with dust, a harbour echoing voices across water, a mote suspended in light, and an abandoned photograph carried through hands and captions.
The book combines original poetry with meditative prose. Each section unfolds as a self-contained arc — illumination, fracture, endurance — and together they build a larger conversation about light as witness. Rather than offering nostalgia or grand declarations, these pieces observe what survives: marks on stone, traces of memory, pressure on language, a photograph that refuses to vanish.
Influenced by the registers of T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, Rainer Maria Rilke, Derek Walcott, Paul Celan, and Wisława Szymborska, the collection does not imitate them but listens closely to their ways of seeing. The work honours their discipline and precision, while carrying their influence into new contexts.
For readers drawn to poetry that is exacting yet humane, attentive to both ruin and survival, Elegance in Ruinous Light offers a sustained meditation on memory, loss, and endurance — a book that asks what light preserves when permanence is no longer possible.
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