{"product_id":"the-light-most-glad-of-all-paperback","title":"The Light Most Glad of All - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKen Meisel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this luminous, whirling collection of poems, love is portal, birdsong, punk rock riff, angel, masquerade, prayer, the very wind stream of life. This is the poetry of ecstasy-riotous and intoxicated as orchard blossoms, that reaches wildly and-through all the senses of the body, though language, \"to touch the beautiful in us that can never change.\" Open this book with gladness-and let the great light in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Robert Fanning, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeverance, Our Sudden Museum, American Prophet, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Seed Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho are Ken Meisel's readers? Tender lovers of Echo Park, perhaps angels who have slipped from heaven to the dark golden sand of Venice Beach to \"all this deep impermanence and emptiness.\" The poems in this collection awaken the Gazer within and without, as if these poems' mission were to teach its reader how to \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003elook\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e Do his readers secret his volumes in their inner pockets? Lay themselves down on lines like \"Not humans. Just dogs\/\u0026amp; when she stands, now, in the mirror, mixing\/the soap to cleanse her fragile, magazine face.\" Ken Meisel writes of crazy dramas of the heart, and I love his poem, \"Monique Jean,\" and the dogs, so many dogs lounging at her feet in the power of tenderness. And what I dearly love about this book is this quality of recurring tenderness-and the search for it, like a pearl necklace he once lost: This book's poems speak to all the mysteries that surround love: \"like a fragment of a petal, a part.\" The Light Most Glad of All revels in a humanness rarely found in verse: it offers to us a poet lost in thought, \"and feeding the small, irritated birds\/that sorted and darted there to the lake, to land in it like soft, \/feathered dragon lizards or angels.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Russell Thorburn, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet It Be Told in a Single Breath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Light Most Glad of All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about love, delight, spirits, time, angels, immortality, space, marriage, and the cosmos. This is metaphysical poetry where Ken Meisel tries to reach\/touch\/explain what is beyond human perception. Poems like \"Delight\" and \"Sunday Morning Prayer\" will enthrall you. Full of intense figurative language and personal myth-making, Meisel takes you on a ride into an internal landscape where \"sacred memory is what awakens in the petals, \/in one another too, whenever we give life to love.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-David James, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlive in Your Skin While You Still Own It\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 130\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42735876341823,"sku":"9781639803798","price":37.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/eecc0c0c5ddad8be4916d1bbb8df67f0.webp?v=1765144992","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-light-most-glad-of-all-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}