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- The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
summary
In his third collection of poems, Daniel Anderson ponders and celebrates the images, sounds, and tastes of contemporary life.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 by ornamental language that seeks to clarify and crystallize the beauties of our common world and the poet’s faith that fellowship ultimately trumps partisanship. Even as they weigh and measure the darkness of the heart and the sometimes rash and stingy movements of the mind, the poems refrain from pronouncing judgment on their characters. As much as they ponder, they also celebrate in exact, careful, and loving terms the haunting and bracing stimuli from which they originate.
Table of Contents
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- Part I
- Pardon and Amnesty
- pp. 5-7
- In Vino Veritas
- pp. 11-14
- From Here to There
- pp. 15-17
- Epithalamion in a Minor Key
- pp. 18-20
- At Advent’s End
- p. 21
- Part II
- This First Hot Saturday in May
- pp. 27-28
- A Late Apology
- pp. 29-30
- Teaching The Merchant of Venice
- pp. 34-36
- The Hills, Beautiful Hills
- pp. 37-39
- Insomnia at Forty-Six
- pp. 40-41
- Easter Sundays
- pp. 42-44
- Part III
- The Novelist to His Characters
- pp. 49-50
- Someone Is Burning Leaves
- pp. 51-53
- Four Voices for the Afterlife
- pp. 54-59
- Mare Cognitum
- pp. 60-61
- Now: A Benediction
- pp. 62-64
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 65-66
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421413488
Related ISBN(s)
9781421413471
MARC Record
OCLC
872407080
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2014-05-15
Language
English
Open Access
No