02215cam a2200361 i 4500 934486046 TxAuBib 20230814120000.0 220902s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022038165 9780819500533 hardcover 0819500534 hardcover (OCoLC)1338131769 TxAuBib rda eng eng Hoskote, Ranjit, 1969- Icelight / Ranjit Hoskote. Ice light. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2023] ©2023. 106 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Wesleyan poetry Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-106.) "Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hope. Icelight, Ranjit Hoskote's eighth collection of poems, enacts the experience of standing at the edge-of a life, a landscape, a world assuming new contours or going up in flames. Yet, the protagonists of these poems also stand at the edge of epiphany. In the title poem, we meet the Neolithic cave-dweller who, dazzled by a shapeshifting nature, crafts the first icon. The 'I' of these poems is not a sovereign 'I.' A questing, questioning voice, it locates itself in the web of life, in relation to the cosmos. In 'Tacet,' the speaker asks: "What if I had/ no skin/ Of what/ am I the barometer?" Long committed to the Japanese mono no aware aesthetic, Hoskote embraces talismans, premonitions, fossils: active residues from the previous lives of people and places. Icelight is a book about transitions and departures, eloquent in its acceptance of transience in the face of mortality."-- Provided by publisher. 20230814. Poetry, Modern 21st century. English poetry 21st century. Poetry. lcgft Wesleyan poetry.