Book description
Gathering Broken Light confronts pasts we cannot understand, largely following the October 2017 mass shooting. Anchored in the severity and the beauty of the Mojave Desert landscape, fractured narratives, surrealist repetition, and imagistic lyricism work to contemplate grief, including both overwhelming sorrow and deep love. A voice yearns, "I wish…
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1 author picked Gathering Broken Light as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Gathering Broken Light was written in response to the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. The poems move quickly from one to the next, telling a story of horror and redemption both. The human cost, the spiritual cost of gun violence is rendered in exquisitely painful detail. Everyone should read this.
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