
It Is Daylight
Arda Collins(Author)
Yale University Press
Published on 14. May 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-300-14888-6 (ISBN)
Description
Announcing the 2008 recipient of the Yale Younger Poets prize
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 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 Glueck observes, "I know no poet whose sense of fraud, the inflated emptiness that substitutes for feeling, is more acute." Glueck calls Collins' volume "savage, desolate, brutally ironic . . . a book of astonishing originality and intensity, unprecedented, unrepeatable."
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 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 Glueck observes, "I know no poet whose sense of fraud, the inflated emptiness that substitutes for feeling, is more acute." Glueck calls Collins' volume "savage, desolate, brutally ironic . . . a book of astonishing originality and intensity, unprecedented, unrepeatable."
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
118 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-14888-6 (9780300148886)
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It Is Daylight
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Arda Collins lives in Denver, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in poetry. Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, A Public Space, and others. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow.