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9781421413471 Academic Inspection Copy

The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel

  • ISBN-13: 9781421413471
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Daniel Anderson
  • Price: AUD $51.99
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2014
  • Format: Paperback 80 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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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.

I. The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
Pardon and Amnesty
Almost
In Vino Veritas
From Here to There
Epithalamion in a Minor Key
At Advent's End
II. This First Hot Saturday in May
A Late Apology
Provinces
Teaching The Merchant of Venice
The Hills, Beautiful Hills
Insomnia at Forty-Six
Easter Sundays
III. Labor Day
The Novelist to His Characters
Someone Is Burning Leaves
Four Voices for the Afterlife
Mare Cognitum
Now: A Benediction
Acknowledgments

""Like the night guard in the title poem of his new collection, Daniel Anderson takes us on memorial rounds with him, checking latches and looking into dark corners, sometimes surprised'often not'at what's to be found there.""

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