The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1347-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 114 g

Reihe: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction

In his third collection of poems, Daniel Anderson ponders and celebrates the images, sounds, and tastes of contemporary life.

The poems in The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel navigate the evanescent boundaries between the public and the private self. Daniel Anderson’s settings are often social but never fail to turn inward, drowning out the chatter of conversation to quietly observe the truths that we simultaneously share and withhold from one another—even as we visit friends, celebrate a young couple’s union, or eavesdrop on the conversations of others.

These twenty poems include meditations on teaching hungover undergraduates, wine tasting among snobs, and engaging the war on terror from the comfort of the suburbs. They are alternately driven by ornamental language that seeks to clarify and crystallize the beauties of our common world and the poet’s faith that fellowship ultimately trumps partisanship. Even as they weigh and measure the darkness of the heart and the sometimes rash and stingy movements of the mind, the poems refrain from pronouncing judgment on their characters. As much as they ponder, they also celebrate in exact, careful, and loving terms the haunting and bracing stimuli from which they originate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
Pardon and Amnesty
Almost
In Vino Veritas
From Here to There
Epithalamion in a Minor Key
At Advent's End
II. This First Hot Saturday in May
A Late Apology
Provinces
Teaching The Merchant of Venice
The Hills, Beautiful Hills
Insomnia at Forty-Six
Easter Sundays
III. Labor Day
The Novelist to His Characters
Someone Is Burning Leaves
Four Voices for the Afterlife
Mare Cognitum
Now: A Benediction
Acknowledgments

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.

Daniel Anderson teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Oregon and is a winner of the Pushcart Prize. He is author of January Rain and Drunk in Sunlight, published by Johns Hopkins, and editor of The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov.