Of Darkness and Light: Poems by Kim Cornwall

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Of Darkness and Light

Poems by Kim Cornwall

Edited by: Wendy Erd

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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University of Alaska Press

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The Alaska Literary Series

About this book

This is the hardest kind of listening. / And who will care? / Most do not. / It’s all applause, / applause applause. / How is it possible / to ask for more than that?

An honest work, stunningly passionate: Kim Cornwall’s spirit-infused poetry weaves family and myth—strong women, wild landscapes, the search for reconciliation in circumstances beyond control—in a radiant language of pain, solace, wonder, and gratitude. This remarkable first and last collection of poetry celebrates and chronicles the borderless area between joy and suffering, like breath after long submersion: for one must breech the surface/where what we most need/ lives.

Author / Editor information

Kim Cornwall (1967–2010) grew up in British Columbia’s long valleys and vast family ranches. Her poetry was published in Homer News, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, and New Ink, among others. Her poem, “What Whales and Infants Know”, inspired a state-wide poetry project, Poems in Place, that set poems by Alaska writers on signs in Alaska’s state parks. Wendy Erd is an Alaska poet and coordinator of Poems in Place.

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“Of Darkness & Light collects a brief handful of poems by Kim Cornwall. As a child in Washington state she was victim of sexual assault, and as an adult she came to Alaska trying to outpace her memories. Unable to overcome the trauma, she took her own life in 2010, leaving behind poetry that is gathered here by editor Wendy Erd.

Only one of the poems directly addresses her assault, but a sense of irrecoverable loss permeates much of the book.”

— Daily News-Miner

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Front Matter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Lungdhar (Wind Flag)
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Sitting in the Dark
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The Myth Makers
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Found
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The Stone Harvesters
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Meditation on the Nature of Poetry
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Meditations on Beethoven
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Sestina: The Sixth Day
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The Moon After All
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Fish Wife
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Identifying a Harbor Witch
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Pursuit
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Thirst
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Passage
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Hair
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Vehicle
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Defining Prize
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Winter Heart
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The Blessing End
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Friend
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Walk Recklessly
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Neighbor
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Miracle
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Rough Drafts
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What Whales and Infants Know
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Acknowledgments
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February 15, 2019

eBook ISBN:

9781602233751

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50

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1 halftone

https://doi.org/10.5876/9781602233751

eBook ISBN: 9781602233751

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Of Darkness and Light

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About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

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Table of contents

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

Lungdhar (Wind Flag)

Sitting in the Dark

The Myth Makers

Found

The Stone Harvesters

Meditation on the Nature of Poetry

Meditations on Beethoven

Sestina: The Sixth Day

The Moon After All

Fish Wife

Identifying a Harbor Witch

Pursuit

Thirst

Passage

Hair

Vehicle

Defining Prize

Winter Heart

The Blessing End

Friend

Walk Recklessly

Neighbor

Miracle

Rough Drafts

What Whales and Infants Know

Afterword

Acknowledgments

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