A Difficulty Is a Light is Rebecca Norris Webb’s first hybrid poetry collection, punctuated by 15 of her lyrical photographs. This elegiac book explores the geography of loss—both personal and environmental—after the suicide of her remaining brother, compounded by the earlier loss of his identical twin.

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Look by look, she also follows the ever-shifting world of light beginning in Trieste, Italy, then traveling from Cape Cod to the Dakotas, from New England to the Carolinas, ultimately observing bird migrations in the American South and northern France, as this book is also a meditation on various kinds of twinning—birds and brothers, grieving and migration, and loss and light.

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Chose Commune, Marseille, October 2024