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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The Green Pond and a Voice You Cannot Place
Chapter 3: Out of Darkness: Walking Among Your Countrymen
Chapter 4: Dropping the Mask and Claiming the Strange
Chapter 5: What We Say About Trees, and What We Conceal
Chapter 6: An Honest Self-Portrait of Nerves and Humor
Chapter 7: A Teacher by the Gold Trees
Chapter 8: A Party by the Sea, Then Silence Inside Language
Chapter 9: Two Sightings, No Panic: Making Space for Mystery
Chapter 10: Alone in the Park, Trying Big Ideas on Reality
Chapter 11: Ridge, Rain, Whippoorwills: A Guide to Being Here
Chapter 12: Making the Whole World Sacred, One Bold Gesture
Chapter 13: Signals, Clouds, and Desire’s Hidden Machines
Chapter 14: Basements, Pressure, and the Room You Cherish
Chapter 15: A Message from the Past, A Green Light in the Now
Chapter 16: Grandfather’s War: Heat, Silence, and What We Cannot Know
Description
Think of this as a single evening where someone you trust opens the door of their mind and lets you wander through. Matthew Rohrer’s A Green Light is poetry, yes, but it’s also the kind of conversation you remember later on a bus, in a park, or standing in your kitchen. He starts with a soup-green pond and a warning voice, then walks us among countrymen and outcasts, through bodily aches, office life, and the odd comedy of being both too big and too fragile. A mentor appears by a stand of gold trees, a party by the sea turns into a brief loss of language, and a tiny person darts across a road, twice, reminding us that mystery can be real and unthreatening. We leave the city for the Shenandoah, where whippoorwills echo and tadpoles begin their short war with being alive. The book also wanders back to church, to a professor who pours holy water into the ocean and declares it all holy, and to a playful submarine race where messages crackle and hearts get battered. There’s a family thread too: a young grandfather in Manila, the heat dissolving clothes, and a silence that follows soldiers home. This AudiobookHub script turns the book into a continuous spoken story—a gently guided tour of images and feelings—so you can stay with it and feel it unfold.
Who Should Listen
- Poetry lovers who want a continuous, story-like listening experience
- Listeners who enjoy vivid images, humor, and emotional honesty
- People curious about nature, faith, family history, and surreal detail