It Is Daylight

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Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Mesmerizing and electric, her poems seem to be articulated in the privacy of an enclosed space. The poems are concrete and yet metaphysically challenging, both witty and despairing. Collins’ emotional complexity and uncommon range make this debut both thrillingly imaginative and ethical in its uncompromising attention to detail. In her Foreword, contest judge Louise Glück observes, “I know no poet whose sense of fraud, the inflated emptiness that substitutes for feeling, is more acute.” Glück calls Collins’ volume “savage, desolate, brutally ironic . . . a book of astonishing originality and intensity, unprecedented, unrepeatable.” CONTENTS Foreword Acknowledgments The News Spring Pool #3 With A Voice In Front Of You The Sound Of Peeling A Potato Low Department Store A History Of Something Letter Poem #5 25A Letter Poem #6 Island Not For Chopin From Speaking In The Fall Because It Has To Be This Way Pool #13 Pool #10 It Is Daylight Garden Apartments April Pool #8 January Over No Hills Poem #9 Heaven West Central Park South Bed Poem Elegy Arctic Poem Pennsylvania Evening Dawn Parts Of An Argument Neptune Poem The Sky As With Bells, As With Nothing In It Snow On The Apples