as they move from darkness to light
Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time
We meet a failed poet who
and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts
a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery
The Lights Geoff Dyer as they move from darknessThe Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a