{"product_id":"light-years-2","title":"Light Years","description":"Dabney Stuart's subject over the last thirty years are as disparate as the forms he chooses for them. His range includes baseball (and other games), geography, the movies, history, sideshows, domestic life, a world, in short, that is rich and various.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmid this exploration, Stuart has sustained certain concerns. The evasive and unsettling nature of family relationships threads consistently through the poems collected in \u003ci\u003eLight Years;\u003c\/i\u003e the poet uncovers deepening emotional and psychological complexities. There are celebrations of his children, his own sonship, his grandparents and grandchildren. Through it all as he says in \"\"The Opposite Field,\"\" the haunting image \/ of [a] possible life \/ watches from a distance.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStuart rings evocative changes on recurrent image patterns, too. Birds are central to his work, for instance, and sing often; water flows frequently; music sounds in places as apparently incongruous as a row of cornstalks. Dreams, and dreaming, inform many poems, their precision of detail becoming part of the sharply observed physical world Stuart renders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhatever else he is up to, Stuart always seeks the play in language, a source of delight and solace even in the most unlikely context. Indeed, as he writes in \"\"Coming To,\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he listens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e to his words play\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e back, they shimmer oddly, on\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e edge, a stranger talking, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e as if they have gone \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e through something\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e he has no other knowledge of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and brought it back: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehis life.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807337005400,"sku":"9780807118993","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/light-years-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}