Drunk in Sunlight

Daniel Anderson

JHU Press, 2007 - Fiction - 73 pages

Accessible and wry, at times comic, and often mournful, Daniel Anderson's poetry is relentlessly attentive to the splendors of the natural world. But the poems collected here—previously published in such leading literary journals as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, New England Review, and Southwest Review—are not relegated simply to the realm of pastoral meditation. They give voice to the sorrowful and sometimes unfortunate things we say and think. They chronicle, with both precision and care, the many ways in which jubilation and lament frequently reverse themselves. Above all else, each poem crystallizes in its wake a freshly minted moment, one that articulates an experience that reaches beyond the poet's own time and place.

Sunflowers drenched in early evening sun; icy blue, explosive waves along the rocky shores of Maine; September cotton "like strange anachronistic snow" in Tennessee—Anderson forges these images into deep ruminations on love, shame, delight, loss, and estrangement.

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User Review  - Erin - Goodreads

Daniel Anderson just visited campus and he was such a thoughtful and amiable man that I knew I would love his poetry. So far his poems attest to meticulous craftsmanship.

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User Review  - Jason - Goodreads

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Contents

• Early Autumn in Tennessee: 12
• A la Belle Etoile: 25
• In Minnesota Once: 39

About the author

Daniel Anderson has taught at Kenyon College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. His first collection of poems, January Rain, was awarded the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Drunk in Sunlight; Drunk in Sunlight; Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
• Author: Daniel Anderson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: JHU Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0801885205, 9780801885204
• Length: 73 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Poetry / American / General