Raking Light David Hodgson It is easy to be

It is easy to be vicious and difficult to be virtuous in today's world

And yet he was one of the most remarkable figures in the early story of the fledgling United States

nothing is what it seems

each time getting more and more nuts

Not only does this inefficiency chew up marketing budget

Raking Light David Hodgson It is easy to beRaking Light is Eric Langley's debut collection of poems. Characterised by his rigorous fascination with language's latent etymologies and semantic layers, Langley's poems take their cue from the art conservation technique of `raking light', in which an oblique beam is thrown across the surface of a picture to expose its textures and overlays. Under raked light, paint reveals its damage and deterioration, its craquelure and canvas warp, and discloses