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Cynthia Huntington expands her theme through images of the landscape, the shack, the new marriage. The shack, named Euphoria, is built as a house set on stilts above the sand, to take the wind under it. Only a partial shelter, it is inhabited for only one season a year, yet it endures. The outer cape has the feel of a place for migrants and drifters -- for birds and other wildlife, and for people such as artists, fishermen, and coast guardsmen. A place where year-round often means several addresses. Similarly, her narrative describes improvised, fragile beginnings: a new marriage, learning to be at home in the world, becoming intimate with the natural world, without the necessity of settling down. 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At the heart of the book is a cycle of poems about specific individuals whose lives enact the states of social and spiritual crisis shared by the author.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53110175334673,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53110175465745,"sku":"NIN9781882295111","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781882295111.jpg?v=1770578225"},{"product_id":"radiant-book-cynthia-huntington-9781884800498","title":"The Radiant","description":"In Cynthia Huntington's The Radiant, what is most tragic can, and often does, become beautiful. What\/ is memory? Who stays to mourn?\/ It seems we feel so much\/ and then we die. The marsh hawk\/ veers over the grass, listening. Poems about Multiple Sclerosis and domestic turmoil are never drowned in the rhetoric of complaint, but seized by language that is intense yet seeks the equilibrium of its own level: His loneliness is cold water. that makes rocks shine. Great stillness\/ where he is. Then, slowly, birds. The poems in The Radiant flow brutally from a scarred heart, from what grows hard, and cannot be repaired. 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