Pacific Light

Name: Pacific Light
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781636280578
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By David Mason

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Pacific Light by David Mason is a profound collection of poetry exploring themes of transformation, history, love, endurance, and beauty. The poems reflect Mason's journey from Washington State to Tasmania, examining the nature of light, peace, and their contradictions. It addresses the immigrant experience, the meaning of home, and life's ultimate boundaries, deepening the narrative scope Mason established in his previous works like The Country I Remember and Ludlow.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary poetry, particularly those drawn to themes of migration, nature, and personal transformation, as well as fans of literary works that combine narrative depth with lyrical beauty.

Pacific Light is a book of transformations, history, love, endurance, and unfathomable beauty by a poet "at the height of his powers."

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Pacific Light is a book of transformations, history, love, endurance, and unfathomable beauty by a poet 'at the height of his powers'.

David Mason was born in Washington State, forty-odd degrees north latitude, and now lives on the Australian island of Tasmania, forty-odd degrees south latitude. That Pacific crossing is the work of a lifetime of devotion and change.

The rich new poems of Pacific Light explore the implications of the light as well as peace and its opposing forces. What does it mean to be an immigrant and face the ultimate borders of our lives? How can we say the word home and mean it?

These questions have obsessed Mason in his major narrative works, The Country I Remember and Ludlow, as well as his lyric and dramatic writing. Pacific Light is a culmination and a deepening of that work, a book of transformations, history and love, endurance and unfathomable beauty, by a poet 'at the height of his powers'.

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Critics praise Mason's skillful storytelling and his vivid depiction of place and people. The Los Angeles Review of Books highlights his mastery in curating a lyrical and narrative archipelago of poems. Reviewers note the collection's geologic and existential depth, describing it as a mature and complex reflection on the world. The work is celebrated as both a summing up and a new beginning, combining individual brilliance into a stunning overall effect.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781636280578

Publisher: Red Hen Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Red Hen Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 96

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Arts & Culture David Mason Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

David Mason grew up in Bellingham, Washington and has lived in many parts of the world, including Greece and Colorado, where he served as poet laureate for four years. His books of poems began with The Buried Houses, The Country I Remember, and Arrivals. His verse novel, Ludlow, was named best poetry book of the year by the Contemporary Poetry Review and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. It was also featured on the PBS NewsHour. He has written a memoir and four collections of essays. His poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in such periodicals as the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, and the Hudson Review. Anthologies include Best American Poetry, The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, and others. He has also written libretti for operas by Lori Laitman and Tom Cipullo, all available on CD from Naxos. In 2015 Mason published two poetry collections: Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade and Davey McGravy: Tales to Be Read Aloud to Children and Adult Children. The Sound: New and Selected Poems and Voices, Places: Essays appeared in 2018. Incarnation and Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us? appeared in 2022. He lives with his wife Chrissy (poet Cally Conan-Davies) in Tasmania on the edge of the Southern Ocean.