As When Waking by Schonning, Daniel

As When Waking

An exploration of poetic form, centering on the alphabet as both its medium and constraint. The poems...
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As When Waking by Schonning, Daniel

As When Waking

$27.55

As When Waking

$27.55
Author: Daniel Schonning
Format: Paperback
Language: English
An exploration of poetic form, centering on the alphabet as both its medium and constraint.

The poems of Daniel Schonning's debut collection range from personal examinations of childhood suffering and loss of faith to deep observations of images and objects to the foreclosure of a family home, a father estranged by addiction, mallards on a frozen pond, flowering bindweed, and a door to the underworld. With all its component pieces, As When Waking aims to apprentice itself to the medium of letters, inviting readers to listen and learn from the systems and symmetries of alphabets.

Schonning employs structural paradigms to explore themes of poetic lineage. Twenty-six of the poems in this collection are abecedarians, a form where the opening letter of each line advances through the alphabet, with the lines of the first poem proceeding alphabetically from A-Z, while those of the second poem move from B-A, and then C-B, all the way to Z-A. This structure is tied to Jewish mystic texts such as the Sefer Yetzirah, which probes the relationship between the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the world they inhabit.


Author: Daniel Schonning
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/01/2025
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.57w x 0.29d
ISBN: 9780226843841

About the Author
Daniel Schonning's poetry has been published in Orion Magazine, Poetry Daily, POETRY Magazine, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where he teaches creative writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and serves as a poetry editor for Seneca Review.

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