Though the Walls Are Lit

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Though the Walls Are Lit is written by Emily Holt and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0999199498 (ISBN 10) and 9780999199497 (ISBN 13).

"The voice in Though The Walls Are Lit is mesmerizing, unsettling, and profoundly honest. Emily Holt has found what poetry at its best can be: a way of speaking--which is also a way of surviving. With two homelands, she distills a language to confront the demons of memory, the mysteries of identity, the inheritance of a history of violence and losses (Know where you are Here No where/No place the dead won't go). Reading the first part of the collection is like following someone through a waking dream edged by nightmare. The untitled poems are as urgent as a whisper, yet image after image detonates. The second part centers on the poet's return to her Irish town of Arklow, carrying the burden of the past and the exile of the present with her. Though the Walls Are Lit explores geographies of the soul, evoking a tradition of hunger strikes, imprisonment, and pain borne by bodies, notably female: [And I could sing but- only this kind of body can have water break from it] This is not the work of a newcomer, but a smart and accomplished artist, unafraid of darkness. Holt's extended elegy for her past, her family, and her people has almost the force of liturgy. This remarkable collection shines with Yeats's "terrible beauty." -Stan Sanvel Rubin"--