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Sun in Days: Poems
From the acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the...
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From the acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for a child, and the philosophical questions raised when the body goes dramatically awry. In formally ambitious poems and lyric essays, Sun in Days gives voice to the experience of illness, the permanence of loss, and invigorating moments of grace. Wresting a recuperative beauty from one's days, O'Rourke traces an arc from loss and illness to the life force of pregnancy and motherhood. Along the way, she investigates a newfound existential awareness of all that vanishes. This is O'Rourke's most ambitious book to date: unsentimental yet deeply felt, and characterized by the lyric precision and force of observation for which her work is known.
From "Idiopathic Illness"
What can be said? I came w/o a warranty,
Stripped of me--or me-ish-ness--
I was a will in a subpar body.
I waxed toward all that waned inside.
Author: Meghan O'Rourke
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/19/2017
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780393608755
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/17/2017
Library Journal 08/01/2017
About the Author
O'Rourke, Meghan: - Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the collections Sun in Days, Halflife, and Once, as well as a memoir, The Long Goodbye. A former editor at The New Yorker, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for Slate, poetry editor for the Paris Review, and is currently the editor of The Yale Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Poetry, the New Republic, and Poetry, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and other awards, she lives in Brooklyn.
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