{"product_id":"shadow-of-the-living-brightness-paperback","title":"Shadow of the Living Brightness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDominique Béchard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoem about unknowing and the uncertainty of in-between states\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShadow of the Living Brightness\u003c\/i\u003e takes its title from Christian mystic Hildegard of Bingen's description of the 'sensation of God's presence.' Béchard manages to make this and other ineffables effable in this collection of poems that offers multiple dimensions of knowing and feeling that are at once fugitive and palpable. How to limn the tension between stepping into and away from the world? What do we not see in our seeing? How to sound sound? The book explores, with the dazzling honesty only a slant approach can achieve: grief, withdrawal, hope, mental illness, suicide. This is a book about unknowing, about uncertainty and in-between states. At the same time, the aching beauty of things and the language that evokes them can fire up a sense of radical attention and connection. Here it's the very fallibility of set identities and truths that invites our re-engagement with their wobbly splendour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShadow of the Living Brightness\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003eDominique Béchard\u003c\/b\u003e's second collection. Her first, \u003ci\u003eOne Dog Town\u003c\/i\u003e, came out with Gaspereau in 2019. She was a co-winner of the Frog Hollow Chapbook Contest in 2022 for \u003ci\u003eInfinity Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e. She has an MFA from New York University and a PhD from the University of New Brunswick. She currently lives in Windsor, where she works in publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855500382405,"sku":"9781552455319","price":26.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/qEgy_LyDkc9781552455319.webp?v=1793533841","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/shadow-of-the-living-brightness-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}