false <![CDATA[It Is Daylight (Yale Series of Younger Poets)]]> 5294568 1 <DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Mesmerizing and electric, her volume <I>It Is Daylight</I> 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 Glück observes, “I know no poet whose sense of fraud, the inflated emptiness that substitutes for feeling, is more acute.” Glück calls Collins’ volume “savage, desolate, brutally ironic . . . a book of astonishing originality and intensity, unprecedented, unrepeatable.”</P></DIV> 5361995 14 4 2009 It Is Daylight (Yale Series of Younger Poets) total:34|5:12|4:13|3:6|2:2|1:1| 34 135 67 4 4 0 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 11:59:16 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 18:00:32 -0700 2009
Poems that made me go "gah" (many) included: The News, With a Voice in Front of You, Spring, A History of Something, Because It Has to Be Thi...more...]]> 1 4 false false Thu Jul 09 08:29:02 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 13:20:05 -0700 2009 Heaven is a white formica table.
Not what I expected,
but I'm not unsatisfied.
God still isn't here.
I'm not even waiting."

-From "Heaven"


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