By Available Light: New & Selected Poems: 195 (Essential Poets Series) - Softcover

"By Available Light is an education on how lost time can be recovered through poetry, how the murky, clogged waters of the past can be clarified by words and made to flow again. This book of Michael Carrino's new and selected poetry brings together the voices of son, brother, soldier, lover, traveler, and as each one shares intimate anecdotes and stories, we are reminded that the poet is always more than one person, that he is all the lives and autobiographies his imagination can salvage. Carrino's work is immediate and totally captivating, and he never writes without his two collaborators: heart and mind." -- Luciano Iacobelli, author of The Angel Notebook

By Available Light is a book of poetry in which Michael Carrino offers poems from his four published books, along with a group of recent poems, to continue an exploration of how the act of reverie casts a sometimes pale, sometimes vivid light using evocative, sensual images of object, place, and person to remember, make sense of such remembering, and to effect how we make our way through a life.