About this title: Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual "Yale Series of Younger Poets" competition. Mesmerizing and electric, her volume "It Is Daylight" reads as a series of dramatic monologues articulated in the privacy of an enclosed space. The poems are concrete and yet metaphysically challenging, both witty and despairing. Collins' emotional complexity and uncommon range make this debut both thrillingly imaginative and ethical in its uncompromising attention to detail. In her Foreword, contest judge Louise Gluck observes 'I know no poet whose sense of fraud, the inflated emptiness that substitutes ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-04-07
ISBN-13:9780300148886ISBN:0300148887
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780300148886ISBN:0300148887
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780300148886ISBN:0300148887
Description: New. Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Mesmerizing and electric, her poems seem to be articulated in the privacy of an enclosed space. The poems are concrete and yet metaphysically challenging, both wi... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780300148879ISBN:0300148879
Description: New. Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Mesmerizing and electric, her poems seem to be articulated in the privacy of an enclosed space. The poems are concrete and yet metaphysically challenging, both wi... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S. A
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780300148879ISBN:0300148879
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