Drunk in Sunlight

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8521-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 88 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 142 g

Reihe: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction

Accessible and wry, at times comic, and often mournful, Daniel Anderson's poetry is relentlessly attentive to the splendors of the natural world. But the poems collected here—previously published in such leading literary journals as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, New England Review, and Southwest Review—are not relegated simply to the realm of pastoral meditation. They give voice to the sorrowful and sometimes unfortunate things we say and think. They chronicle, with both precision and care, the many ways in which jubilation and lament frequently reverse themselves. Above all else, each poem crystallizes in its wake a freshly minted moment, one that articulates an experience that reaches beyond the poet's own time and place.

Sunflowers drenched in early evening sun; icy blue, explosive waves along the rocky shores of Maine; September cotton "like strange anachronistic snow" in Tennessee—Anderson forges these images into deep ruminations on love, shame, delight, loss, and estrangement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
I
Returning Home Late Sunday Night
Sunflowers in a Field
Elegy for the Dying Dog
Thorns. Thistles.
Burning the House
The Wasp That's Lately Died
Early Autumn in Tennessee
II
Reading History
Dimensions, Senses, Affections
Cycling
Question
À la Belle Étoile
The Pond in Summertime
Old Stone Houses
III
Rising Tide at Schoodic Point
In Minnesota Once
America the Beautiful
High School Reunion, 1998
O' Florida
We've Gathered in a Formal Garden
After Entertaining
Sea Glass
On Having Said Something Cruel
Moving (Again)
IV
Bill Fowler's Pointer Hears a Voice
Watching Nature on TV
Probability and Statistics
Aubade
The Dandelions
Ripeness Is All
In Here. Out There.
First Frost

Über Autor(innen)

Anderson, Daniel
Daniel Anderson has taught at Kenyon College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. His first collection of poems, January Rain, was awarded the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize.