Night Unto Night Poems

How can one reconcile the irreconcilable? In this masterful companion to Day Unto Day, Martha Collins finds common ground between contradictions-beauty and horror, joy and mortality, the personal and the political.Like its predecessor, the daybook of Night Unto Night begins with time. Its six sequences, each written in one month a year, over the course of six years, bring together the natural and the all-too-human. Red-winged blackbirds and the death of a friend. The green leaves of a maple tree and drones overseas. A February spent in Italy and the persistence of anti-immigrant rhetoric.Dissonance is a permanent state, Collins suggests, something to be occupied rather than solved. And so this collection approaches its transcendence in the space between these seeming contrasts-and in the space between stanzas, sequences, days, and months. These poems are powerfully alive, speaking to and revising each other, borrowing a word or a line before turning it on end. We are doomed to repeat mistakes, seasons, wars, words. Yet redemption beckons, too, in the persistence of empathy and love.

ISBN:	9781571314895
Publisher:	Milkweed Editions
Imprint:	Milkweed Editions
Published date:	06 Mar 2018
DEWEY:	811.54
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	108
Weight:	181g
Height:	216mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	13mm

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