{"product_id":"9781848612150","title":"Noctilucent","description":"The poems in Noctilucent begin where light exists or is created in darkness, a paradox. But this is not a 'dark \/ light' of metaphor, but of the real and of relationship, where algae illumines the deep sea, the light of dead stars reach us from deep space, and night is a doorway, an entrance into the interior-of self, other, cosmos. Melissa Buckheit bridges human experience-personal, historical, social-into this space where the very thing which is invisible or hidden, must be spoken. There is no Truth-but truths, identity, eros, suffering, loss gleam along the interstices of the lyric as meaning embedded in a strange and musical syntax. We are surprised, as if by a pale-white, fragrant Datura blooming unforgivingly in the dark of night, by her intimacy and electric force. In Noctilucent, the beloved is every human body, a decaying salmon, or the lilts of a lover's voice-our human devotion to memory.","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055873835248,"sku":"9781848612150","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781848612150_p0.jpg?v=1763750867","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781848612150","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}