An Arbitrary Light Bulb Bio25 and literary triumphs and trials

and literary triumphs and trials

It’s the unrivaled realm of discovery

and wild mushrooms that depend on their glow-in-the-dark superpower for survival

one that is kinder

An Arbitrary Light Bulb Bio25 and literary triumphs and trialsA Poetry Book Society Choice An Arbitrary Light Bulb is Ian Duhigs most personal collection of poems to date. It takes its title from the most common type of household bulb yet one whose name is virtually unknown, like many people these poems celebrate. Duhig finds in the arbitrary an image for the randomness of inspiration and of life, haunted here by deaths of family and friends. He laments the lost but also responds to the glories of our existence,