Light Persists

Starting with The Cormorant, the book's opening poem, and reinforced by bird poems that begin each section of LIGHT PERSISTS, Jane Ellen Glasser steers toward the sun and lifts out spirits. Through nature the poet is put in touch with her inner world in the stillness of a meditation that delights and awakens. Yet she does not shun life's difficulties. At the heart of this book, a transcendental sequel to her first collection, NAMING THE DARKNESS, are poems mourning her daughter Jessica, who died in a car accident at the age of twenty-two. Glasser courageously addresses loss and doubt as she leads us on an enlightening journey, wide enough to encompass gratitude and joy, blessed by images and language full of grace for eye and ear.