Sun in Days: Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393608751 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the poetry collections Halflife and Once, and a memoir, The Long Goodbye. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, among them The New Yorker and Slate. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and other awards, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.
In formally ambitious poems and lyric essays, Sun in Days gives voice to the experience of illness, the permanence of loss, and recuperative moments of grace. This is O’Rourke’s most ambitious book to date: deeply felt and characterized by the lyric precision and force of observation her work is known for.FROM “IDIOPATHIC ILLNESS”What can be said? I came w/o a warranty,Stripped of meor me-ish-nessI was a will in a subpar body.I waxed toward all that waned inside.. A groundbreaking new collection by a celebrated writer of “ambitious and dynamic poems” (New York Times).From acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O’Rourke, a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for a child, and the philosophical questions raised when the biological self goes dramatically awry. Along the way, O’Rourke investigates a newfound existential awareness of all that vanishesas well as infertility, motherhood, and nostalgia for the 1980s
“In long lineslike long nights of love or suffering, or in fleeting scenes like snapshots, O’Rourke reminds us that life (in a body, of the mind) is a dappled thing, patchy and reverberating. O’Rourke’s light is gorgeous and powerful.” - Brenda Shaughnessy. The poet’s heat-seeking intelligence detects primal unanswered questions (of pain, of desire, of loss) and finds new ways to throw light on them . In the world of Sun in Days, what was longed for (but never was) is as meaningful as what happened, as true as what is, depending on the light