Light is the principal element in this book. Light is "on the edge," it is both the agent of perception and the last thing perceived. Hall celebrates the beauty of what is perceived as it appears or changes and the pain of that experience. The theme is loss, but things lost are willingly relinquished. The small self moves outward toward the larger, toward enlightenment. This is a book of "first" things, the first snow, the first kite, the first winter light, the spring's first bloodroot, all seen intensely as part of a wider experience. Its tone is mystical and contemplative.
- ISBN10 0819511463
- ISBN13 9780819511461
- Publish Date 1 August 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University Press of New England
- Imprint Wesleyan University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72
- Language English