Counterglow
Killelea, Patricia
Borrowing its title from astronomy, the counterglow is a faint light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the sun. Made up of interplanetary dust, this glow is difficult to detect unless one observes from a place without light. These lyric poems of Patricia Killelea speak from this darkness as she seeks a language of redemption- some kind of brightness to cling to, however faint. Spanning terrains of spiritual and literal hunger, wh...