Diurne

by Kristin George Bagdanov

Poetry. Women's Studies. Winner of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, chosen by Timothy Donnelly. DIURNE is a procedural project, "a line each hour of waking / a poem each day of making," that explores how poetry is durational rather than inspirational, work rather than epiphany. It is part autobiography, part journalism, part theory, and part apology for not being traditional "poetry."

"Whip-smart, allusive, aphoristic, cheekily instructive...shot with lyricism, endlessly playful, intimate, anxious, and often laugh-out-loud funny, DIURNE achieves with great grace and relative efficiency what the best examples of its subgenre have to offer: it limns a sense of consciousness through whatever's at hand as it places the noteworthy on equal footing with the banal."--Timothy Donnelly

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2019

About the author

Kristin George Bagdanov earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Colorado State University and her PhD in Literature from U.C. Davis. She has two poetry collections: Fossils in the Making (2019, Black Ocean) and Diurne (Tupelo Press, 2019), winner of the 2019 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships from Phi Kappa Phi, Lilly Graduate Fellows, the Bilinski Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center.

Reviews

[Cody Stetzel]

What an incredible collection. I found the poems herein to be smart, funny, and expansive. Split my time reading the book sending snippets to friends with the caption, "The sheer BDE of this poem," or, "Wow, I can't believe the distance crossed in these two lines."

A lovely experience. I hope she receives many letters.

[Laurel]

Fragmentation at its finest.

[cole]

i read this so fast💪💪