{"product_id":"night-unto-night-poems-paperback","title":"Night Unto Night: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartha Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow can one reconcile the irreconcilable? In this masterful companion to \u003cem\u003eDay Unto Day\u003c\/em\u003e, Martha Collins finds common ground between contradictions--beauty and horror, joy and mortality, the personal and the political.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike its predecessor, the daybook of \u003cem\u003eNight Unto Night\u003c\/em\u003e begins with time. Its six sequences, each written in one month a year, over the course of six years, bring together the natural and the all-too-human. Red-winged blackbirds and the death of a friend. The green leaves of a maple tree and drones overseas. A February spent in Italy and the persistence of anti-immigrant rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDissonance is a permanent state, Collins suggests, something to be occupied rather than solved. And so this collection approaches its transcendence in the space between these seeming contrasts--and in the space between stanzas, sequences, days, and months. These poems are powerfully alive, speaking to and revising each other, borrowing a word or a line before turning it on end. We are doomed to repeat mistakes, seasons, wars, words. Yet redemption beckons, too, in the persistence of empathy and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Collins\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eDay Unto Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhite Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, and the book-length poem \u003ci\u003eBlue Front\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also published four collections of cotranslated Vietnamese poetry, including \u003ci\u003eBlack Stars: Poems by Ngo Tu Lap\u003c\/i\u003e (with the author). Her awards include fellowships from the NEA, the Bunting Institute, and the Witter Bynner Foundation, as well as an Anisfield-Wolf Award, two Ohioana Awards, the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize, and three Pushcart Prizes. Founder of the creative writing program at UMass-Boston, she served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College until 2007, and is currently editor-at-large for \u003ci\u003eFIELD\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and one of the editors of the Oberlin College Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47582159536349,"sku":"9781571314895","price":17.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/HYnuJk4EPB9781571314895.webp?v=1773569953","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/night-unto-night-poems-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}