It Is Daylight (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

Arda Collins is the winner of the annual Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Mesmerizing and electric, her poems seem to be articulated in the.
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One last comment on this book — it seems that the poet and her publisher have agreed to change fonts throughout the book in order to get the book under a certain number of pages that must have been in the rules of the contest she won. Sep 25, John Allen rated it it was amazing. Still one of my favorite books of poetry. Arda Collins achieves something here that very few poets can; she enters into a state of blank gnosis. This is past present and future put in one tense. I liked all of the poems, especially "Heaven".

Certainly deserved the Yale Younger Poets award. Reading it takes bravery, I suppose. A must read for poets who get tired of confessional poetry. Jul 15, Jenelle rated it it was amazing Recommended to Jenelle by: Apr 06, Mia rated it it was amazing. I am rather in love with this book and its flatness and its food and its interrogations and its hiding-in-apartments right now. Mar 03, Jessica DMJ rated it liked it. Reminded me of my own poetry style, observing the everyday things and becoming lost in thought. Some of the poems were incredibly insightful, but I feel like only the poet herself can understand the majority of her works.

All in all, this is a decent anthology, but I don't think it quite meets up with the hype. Jan 30, M rated it it was ok. Night halos any time of day. If you take away all the light there's a nebula in your face. Apr 20, Samantha rated it really liked it. Is it Day or is it Night? I read it thinking the title "It is Daylight" was a bit interesting with the cover being the opposite of what the title sounded as though it was supposed to be like.

I thought it would be poetry dealing with non-darkish sides of poetry I was a bit wrong. I saw this title and thought about it to be about a book of somewhat positive poems, It is Daylight by Arda Collins seems as th Is it Day or is it Night? I saw this title and thought about it to be about a book of somewhat positive poems, It is Daylight by Arda Collins seems as though it was a normal, not so depressing and a bit upbeat kind of poetry.

Although it was extremely different from what I was expecting, I actually grew to like it over the course of time. What made me like this poem was how different it was. I thought this poem would be something to deal with Spring but it turns out to be about her being hungry, being distracted by her random thoughts, burning the roast that she was making and then going to get food from the grocery store.

My favorite lines even in the poem was I could get in the car right now And drive all night, As soon as I had a sandwich. I just find that her language in her writing is just interesting and completely different from what I am used to. She just seems so interesting and so smart.


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I believe that her other poems are also very different in the book. Arda Collins, to me, is a very Her randomness is just hilarious to me and to me she's a poet I would like to read more from in the near future. Bold, hilarious, and intriguing. Aug 10, Robert rated it liked it. This book is about nothing, but I mean that as a good thing.

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There is an emptiness that echos throughout the book. The poem Department Store is a good example of this emptiness that Arda Collins makes palpable. The speaker is detatched from their surroundings, moving through the world almost like a sleepwalker. These poems are interested in what goes on in an empty room when the door is closed. Each poem is quiet and passes This book is about nothing, but I mean that as a good thing. Each poem is quiet and passes like a cloud. The everyday-tone becomes a little wearisome and does not always mesh well with abstraction.

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Jul 05, Craig rated it liked it. I don't really know how to review this book. It really just didn't connect with me at all. And so, typically, I would give it a lower score. At the same time, I was so intrigued by the voice. At times "confessional," it also maintains a certain clinical distance. I haven't read any voice quite like it - and that elevates it an extra star for me. The voice almost reminds me of a documentarian following a serial killer. As odd as that might sound, I pictured that at several points in the book.

The I don't really know how to review this book. The odd combination of closeness and distance, almost a sort of poetic stalking Jun 23, Melissa rated it really liked it Shelves: This is one cohesive little book--like the Abbey Road of slim, lonely volumes of poetry. She's fresh, and funny as hell too.

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Poems that made me go "gah" many included: Mar 14, Allyson rated it liked it Shelves: I left the conference in February with her name on my must-find-and-read list. The short and sweet: It Is Daylight is good. Some of the poems do nothing for me "Garden Apartments," "Poem 9" and others, especially the first one in the book "The News" drive me batty with envy of her talent. I look forward to reading her future publications.

Jan 17, Sofia Samatar rated it really liked it. Very flat in the best way, these poems. Reading them is like eating ice. They are full of mundane objects--cars, phones, posters, airports, tables--with a insistent unreality breaking through. All the time the language is also trying to be as empty as possible, sustained by a fierce and uncompromising intelligence. You sort of have to ask yourself, if one of these poems seems sad, whether that sadness is the poem's, or yours. Nov 30, James rated it liked it Shelves: I will defer to William Logan's pretty much dead-on review of this book.

Click the link below to read it last of the five: Basically, the book is awesome but too long. Still, I'm really looking forward to what this poet does in the future. Mar 03, Zach rated it liked it.


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The poems in this collection are interesting, but they seem headed to a place than none of them quite reach. They spend all their time asea, and never think about the shore, so they remain ungrounded. I'm all about the voyage, but with no hint of a destination, even one that the poet never intended to actually reach, I found it hard to relate or connect to the poems. Nov 05, Mork Schettler rated it liked it Shelves: It has it's pay-offs, but they just weren't quite often enough for my taste.

I don't know, the mood really often felt slouchy, and when they woke up, so to speak, the fancifulness of them seemed forced and overly ironic. Anyway, no doubt a talented lady here, maybe just not my thing? I might like a few more gut punches than Collins appears to have in her Jun 05, Jeremy Allan added it Shelves: I've had this on my "currently reading" shelf for maybe nine months. I've been lying to you.

Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

In truth, I read about three quarters of this volume and just couldn't get excited about it. I may try again in the future. For now, though, it's going on a different shelf.

Merwin , John Ashbery , and John Hollander. The period was also notable for the two-time refusal of Sylvia Plath 's manuscript Two Lovers , [3] and Colossus which was subsequently published in England. The judgeship of W. Merwin , from to , was fraught with controversy, as he refused to select a winner the first year that he was judge. Carl Phillips is the current judge. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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