The Light Changes

As reviewers have noted, Amy Billone’s The Light Changes is “a remarkable accomplishment,” “a powerful, moving book” that reaches levels “rarely achieved in contemporary poetry.” Billone’s brilliant poetic voice begs to be heard.

As reviewers have noted, Amy Billone’s The Light Changes is “a remarkable accomplishment,” “a powerful, moving book” that reaches levels “rarely achieved in contemporary poetry.” Billone’s brilliant poetic voice begs to be heard.

AMY BILLONE has published poems widely. Her academic book Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet (Ohio State University Press, 2007) is the only extended study that has been written about nineteenth-century female sonneteers. Little Songs offers a complex analysis of the overwhelming impact that silence makes, not only on British women’s poetry, but also on the development of modern poetry and thought. Billone wrote the Introduction and Notes for the Barnes and Noble Classics edition of Peter Pan (2005). She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. Her scholarly and creative work appears in major academic and literary journals. She lives with her two sons in Knoxville, Tennessee.