Intimacies in Borrowed Light
(By Darius Stewart)
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Discovering the self is fraught enough, let alone under the ever-present threat of HIV and AIDS. Ranging from the private to the confessional, the lyrical to the narrative, the elegiac to the celebratory, Stewart's writing is gritty, often blunt, but always beautiful as he strives to understand the grief of lost love and lost youth without losing hope.
Jesse Graves, author of Merciful Days and Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place, said of the collection, “The radiant poems in Darius Stewart’s Intimacies in Borrowed Light invite readers into the full and evolving vision of a brilliant young poet as he explores the nuances of his own identity and experiences as a Black and gay artist in urban Appalachia and beyond. We encounter first loves and lost loves, family members struggling to take care of one another, and an emerging writer engaging with timeless works from Magritte and Debussy to Louise Gluck and Jack Gilbert. Those of us who read Darius’s work from the early days have sought these poems out and watched as they became harder and harder to find: to hold them together now in one substantial volume is a joy. The central, intertwining themes of this book are announced right in the title—intimacy and light—and Stewart’s poems make the world feel more closely held and better lit, easier to love and harder to take for granted.”
Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations, National Book Critics Circle finalist and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, said, “Darius Stewart’s Intimacies in Borrowed Light thrums with ecstasy and extravagance even as his speaker charts the vagaries of the body, the inevitability of grieving and loss. A finely wrought debut, Intimacies in Borrowed Light heralds Stewart as a bold, emerging voice.””
