Emerging from walks taken by the author from the birthplaces to the deathsites of three poets (Hölderlin, Lorca, and Hernández), The Double Lamp of Solitude is a collection of poems, prose, translations, and images that meditate on time, relationships, reading, society, and solitude.

“Throughout this book, which meditates on reading and writing, solitude and intimacy, and time (and its attendants, history and change), Edwards plays with perspective, leaning in to the traveler’s point of view—using the “eye” as a camera to describe “present pleasures / anchored in the past,” the quotidian, the road—while also stretching, with subtle poetic craftsmanship, the limits of his own subjective mapmaking. Sometimes, using the second person, he casts the reader into the periplum.”—Harriet Green, Harriet Books (Poetry Foundation)