{"product_id":"9781612618609","title":"The Consequence of Moonlight: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe act of writing poetry, for Sofia Starnes, is a \"getting out of the way\" so that a poem might occur, a poem that must itself become a place of resonance, where the reader might recognize a voice otherwise unheard. \u003cem\u003eThe Consequence of Moonlight \u003c\/em\u003eis a poetic invitation to an awareness of an underlying Presence; it is also a call to \u003cem\u003ebe \u003c\/em\u003epresent as a loving witness of valuable--and vulnerable--things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems are written to be depositories for the reader's experiences. The poem's truth is its emotion, nothing else. Why moonlight? Because the moon has no light of its own; it lives on borrowed light, as we do. The moon is best perceived and most needed in the dark, fulfilling itself in absence. It is both \u003cem\u003ehere \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ethere\u003c\/em\u003e, as is often true for saints, whose luminosity is seen as lunacy in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paraclete Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031650320624,"sku":"9781612618609","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612618609_p0.jpg?v=1763843394","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612618609","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}