“In Light Here, Light There, his second collection, Alexander Long crafts prose poems with sharp tools to contain the contradictions of love and memory, loss and promise. The poems are peopled by family, jazzmen, soldiers, poets, lovers, friends, and working people of all kinds. The living and the ghosts of the dead jostle one another in bars and laundromats, at the beach, on city streets and in feverish dreams. In a group of meditations on the suicide of a childhood friend, Long tests the limits of loss and grief in poems that are at once heartbreaking and touched with possibility. Long is an original.”
—Marie Harris, author of Weasel in the Turkey Pen
