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How The Light Is Spent

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By Gail Sidonie Šobat | Published by Wintergreen Studio Press

  • Mystery
  • Romance
  • Suspense
  • Thriller
  • Fiction

A book of love, loss, and time

In this fine collection, Gail Sidonie Sobat explores profound themes of love, loss, and the passage of time. The first section, Badlands, constructs a narrative of a young couple divided by war and tragedy, their story so poignant it never quite leaves the remaining pages. The middle collection of poems, Sailing to Byzantium, sweeps readers across the ocean dropping them squarely into the heat and noise of an Istanbul market. 

A piercing impression of longing permeates this section, troubling the finality of the first narrative, as if the lover’s grief is embodied, restless. The final collection, How the Light is Spent, replaces the exoticism of the former section with more familiar scenes, at least for Canadian readers. A series of poems about winter reveal an almost familiar soul who attempts to “cheat autumn,” mark time, and rage against the dying light. 

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Whistler Independent Book Award, 2016


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"In How the Light is Spent Sobat has created a personal history that not only tells the story of her family and herself in this world, but helps us see the world is a far more complex, beautiful and awe-inspiring place than any textbook could hope to tell us. This is history as it should be, told through the pen of a poet with an eye for the important details of life." - Blogcritics

“A book of poetry rooted in rural Canada, the profound shines in the truth telling of the everyday…. The bones of truthtelling, the Poet as outlander, inside; a deep anger with a subtle humour, a celebration of dance and survival. Upon the occasion of stories in poetry, a beautiful read on a summer afternoon.” - Subterranean Blue Poetry

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