{"product_id":"noctilucent-9781848612150","title":"Noctilucent","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Melissa Buckheit\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Noctilucent begin where light exists or is created in darkness, a paradox. But this is not a 'dark \/ light' of metaphor, but of the real and of relationship, where algae illumines the deep sea, the light of dead stars reach us from deep space, and night is a doorway, an entrance into the interior-of self, other, cosmos. Melissa Buckheit bridges human experience-personal, historical, social-into this space where the very thing which is invisible or hidden, must be spoken. There is no Truth-but truths, identity, eros, suffering, loss gleam along the interstices of the lyric as meaning embedded in a strange and musical syntax. We are surprised, as if by a pale-white, fragrant Datura blooming unforgivingly in the dark of night, by her intimacy and electric force. In Noctilucent, the beloved is every human body, a decaying salmon, or the lilts of a lover's voice-our human devotion to memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45413304434839,"sku":"9781848612150","price":1228.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781848612150.webp?v=1767444694","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/noctilucent-9781848612150","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}