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Day Unto Day
Martha Collins
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Description for Day Unto Day
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
Martha Collins offers haunting reflections on time and other subjects in Day unto Day, a spare and subtle seventh collection. The book consists of six sequences: during one month each year, for six years, Collins wrote a short poem each day. With perfectly distilled lines, she captures the aching, liminal beauty of one day becoming another -- the slow burn of time passing, the ambiguity of an "old / new leaf" turning over, even as she collages a wide range of material that includes often disturbing news of the world. Writing in the tradition of poetic meditation, Collins shows us ... Read more
Martha Collins offers haunting reflections on time and other subjects in Day unto Day, a spare and subtle seventh collection. The book consists of six sequences: during one month each year, for six years, Collins wrote a short poem each day. With perfectly distilled lines, she captures the aching, liminal beauty of one day becoming another -- the slow burn of time passing, the ambiguity of an "old / new leaf" turning over, even as she collages a wide range of material that includes often disturbing news of the world. Writing in the tradition of poetic meditation, Collins shows us ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571314529
SKU
V9781571314529
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99-15
About Martha Collins
Martha Collins is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently White Papers, and Blue Front. She has also published three books of co-translations from the Vietnamese: Ngo Tu Lap's Black Stars, Nguyen Quang Thieu's The Women Carry River Water, and Lam Thi My Da's Green Rice. Collins founded the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, ... Read more
Reviews for Day Unto Day
Advance Praise for Day Unto Day "Reading Day Unto Day is like listening in on the meditations of a nimble, restless mind hurtling through time. These poetic sequences can't help but engage with the idea of time, with the immediacy of the past in our lives
but they are also much more than this. Here, Martha Collins delves into the shiftiness ... Read more
but they are also much more than this. Here, Martha Collins delves into the shiftiness ... Read more