A Difficulty is a Light - Rebecca Norris Webb illustration The bodies of her subjects

The bodies of her subjects bear all-too physical traces of conflict and aggressive foreign policy: two Cambodian teenagers who have lost their legs to landmines while gathering wood near their homes

Each page is illustrated with semi-abstract designs derived from objects associated with screen printing

It’s winter in Sokcho

But when everything is designed

with nearly 20

A Difficulty is a Light - Rebecca Norris Webb illustration The bodies of her subjectsThis is poet and photographer Rebecca Norris Webbs first hybrid poetry collection, punctuated by more than a dozen of her lyrical photographs. This elegiac book explores the geography of lossboth personal and environmental after the suicide of her sole remaining brother, compounded by the earlier loss of his identical twin. Glimpse by glimpse, she also follows the ever shifting world of light beginning in Trieste, Italy, then traveling from Cape Cod