{"product_id":"the-light-on-sifnos-paperback","title":"The Light on Sifnos - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Quick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2020 Blue Light Press Poetry Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet and writer Barbara Quick is best known as author of the internationally bestselling novel \u003cem\u003eVivaldi's Virgins\u003c\/em\u003e, which has been translated into a dozen languages\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eNorthern Edge, \u003c\/em\u003e won the Discover: Great New Writers prize. Her fourth novel, \u003cem\u003eWhat Disappears, \u003c\/em\u003e is being launched by Regal House in 2022. Some of Barbara's poems have been recorded by Garrison Keillor and featured on \u003cem\u003eThe Writer's Almanac.\u003c\/em\u003e She has been the featured guest on Grace Cavalieri's long-running program from the Library of Congress, \"The Poet and the Poem.\" Barbara's essays, poems and book reviews have been published in many periodicals, including the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review, Newsweek, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eAnnals of Internal Medicine, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Humanistic Mathematics, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCanary, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eMonterey Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e and other literary journals, both print and online. Her poems have been anthologized in \u003cem\u003eThese Trees, \u003c\/em\u003e a large-format art book by photographer Ruthie Rosauer; \u003cem\u003eFire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California \u003c\/em\u003e(co-edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan for Scarlet Tanager Books); \u003cem\u003eFog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here \u003c\/em\u003e(Diane Frank, Editor, Blue Light Press); \u003cem\u003ePandemic Puzzle Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(Diane Frank and Prartho Sereno, Editors, Blue Light Press). Based on a small farm and vineyard in the California Wine Country with her husband Wayne Roden, a vigneron and long-time violist with the San Francisco Symphony, Barbara takes Brazilian dance classes whenever possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Quick is a novelist of international reputation, and her skills are evident here, with characters we can believe; an atmosphere we can feel; and interior thoughts that deepen her observation. Every poem is a small story with personality and purpose- lines that flow like silk, holding words precise in every note. Quick gives us an island where we can go whenever we want to make beauty our own and rest in the company of flawless writing. Poetry has good reason to celebrate today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Praise the wisdom of the wanderers \/ who kiss the earth, at last \/ returning home,\" Barbara Quick tells us in the final poem of \u003cem\u003eThe Light on Sifnos\u003c\/em\u003e, and the reader feels satisfied with the rightness of the ending for such a beautifully rendered journey through light and dark, time and timelessness. In poems written as she read Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eQuick's language is as lyrical as it is accessible. While her dead are as vividly present as the living, her keen awareness of mortality doesn't interfere with the giddy release from the quotidian that travel can bring, as when she plunges naked into the Aegean to join her \"selkie mate.\" There's deep joy in these poems. There's also deep wisdom, fully deserving of praise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eLynne Knight, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Language of Forgetting\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe haunting power of this collection is not epic, but Sapphic: mysteries rising from a handful of fragments gleaming in the sun. Barbara Quick's Sifnos is a place of elemental beauty, alive with the Attic past, peopled with the ghosts still living, still wandering with the other shades in the poet's soul as she navigates her way (with her father's old compass) through this world, \"the future home of all we are and all we dream \/ in gleaming transit through the dark.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- George Bilgere, author of\u003cem\u003e Haywire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 34\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.08 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42709092335679,"sku":"9781421836973","price":20.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0e82e6365ab74495fd91789b181b2c34.webp?v=1765050161","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-light-on-sifnos-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}