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The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
Daniel Anderson
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Description for The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
Paperback. As much as they ponder, they celebrate in exact, careful, and loving terms the haunting and bracing stimuli from which they originate. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 6. Weight in Grams: 112.
The poems in The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel navigate the evanescent boundaries between the public and the private self. Daniel Anderson's settings are often social but never fail to turn inward, drowning out the chatter of conversation to quietly observe the truths that we simultaneously share and withhold from one another - even as we visit friends, celebrate a young couple's union, or eavesdrop on the conversations of others. These twenty poems include meditations on teaching hungover undergraduates, wine tasting among snobs, and engaging the war on terror from the comfort of the suburbs. They are alternately driven ... Read more
The poems in The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel navigate the evanescent boundaries between the public and the private self. Daniel Anderson's settings are often social but never fail to turn inward, drowning out the chatter of conversation to quietly observe the truths that we simultaneously share and withhold from one another - even as we visit friends, celebrate a young couple's union, or eavesdrop on the conversations of others. These twenty poems include meditations on teaching hungover undergraduates, wine tasting among snobs, and engaging the war on terror from the comfort of the suburbs. They are alternately driven ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421413471
SKU
V9781421413471
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-19
About Daniel Anderson
Daniel Anderson teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Oregon and is a winner of the Pushcart Prize. He is author of January Rain and Drunk in Sunlight, published by Johns Hopkins, and editor of The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov.
Reviews for The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
Like the night guard in the title poem of his new collection, Daniel Anderson takes us on memorial rounds with him, checking latches and looking into dark corners, sometimes surprised-often not-at what's to be found there.
Graham Murtaugh Oregon Humanities
Graham Murtaugh Oregon Humanities