It Is Daylight

Arda Collins

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9780300155464
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

Announcing the 2008 recipient of the Yale Younger Poets prize

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.”

Arda Collins lives in Denver, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in poetry. Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, A Public Space, and others. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow.

Table of contents

• 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