Forged Light

Title: Forged Light Author: Lloyd, Margaret ISBN: 9780983147114 Publisher: Open Field Press Published: 2013 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Poetry 1405959 Publisher Description: 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,