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Product Description Poetry. Sentence by sentence, line by line, LIGHTHOUSE casts horizons. A possible allusion to Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse can be discerned in the sense of suspense, of preparation and promise that pervades the text, a sense of things underway. But that it is present excitement and expectation rather than some terminus out in the future that is art's (and life's?) ultimate achievement is clear from the outset. Of course, one can't think of a lighthouse without being aware of the slippage of its illumination and the concealment that surrounds what's revealed. A strange narrative -- a narrative of the strangeness of what is -- comes into view. LIGTHHOUSE is about the experience of being on the way, distance by distance. We move from part to whole and whole to part again, "the proximity unveiling a subtle inquiry." From Publishers Weekly At the center of M. Mara-Ann's rectangular Lighthouse is an untitled, multipage visual work, consisting of Barnett Newman-like bands of shading in which lines of text are embedded (everything from a "sovereign" to "my slow, directed concentration"), creating an effect unlike anything else in concrete poetry or visual art. Editor of the visual-poetic e-journal Wood (www.medusa.orgwood), Mara rounds out the book with "water rites," "chance sublimation," "provident ascension," "belief," "respite" and 10 other poems sum to a complete thought, or one revolution of the search light: "opening the breadth and a full view of character lingering through a slowness of step the light respite just located in reception." Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.