When There Was Light
Hoffman, Carlie![When There Was Light](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/435/43552916/CHSBZCOP0343552916.jpg)
While Hoffman's debut collection interrogated the mythos built around grief, inhabiting an Alaska of the mind, her stunning sophomore collection When There Was Light looks at the past for what it was.These poems map out a topography where global movements of diaspora and war live alongside personal reckonings: a house's foreclosure, parents' divorce, the indelible night spent drunk with a best friend "[lying] down inside a chronic row of corn....