As When Waking
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-84384-1 (ISBN)
The poems of Daniel Schonning’s debut collection range from personal examinations of childhood suffering and loss of faith to deep observations of images and objects to the foreclosure of a family home, a father estranged by addiction, mallards on a frozen pond, flowering bindweed, and a door to the underworld. With all its component pieces, As When Waking aims to apprentice itself to the medium of letters, inviting readers to listen and learn from the systems and symmetries of alphabets.
Schonning employs structural paradigms to explore themes of poetic lineage. Twenty-six of the poems in this collection are abecedarians, a form where the opening letter of each line advances through the alphabet, with the lines of the first poem proceeding alphabetically from A–Z, while those of the second poem move from B–A, and then C–B, all the way to Z–A. This structure is tied to Jewish mystic texts such as the Sefer Yetzirah, which probes the relationship between the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the world they inhabit.
Daniel Schonning’s poetry has been published in Orion Magazine, Poetry Daily, POETRY Magazine, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where he teaches creative writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and serves as a poetry editor for Seneca Review.
Proem
Paean
One Poem About Poetry
Catalog
[Little Box: Caedmon and the Host]
Midwinter Elegy
Body Moving About a Frame
[Little Box: Honeybee]
Dog Star
The Beatitudes
[Little Box: Gilgamesh and Enkidu]
As When Waking
Ladder
A Perfect Form Unblinking
[Little Box: The Vulture and the Jackal]
The Living
A Vision
[Little Box: Juniper]
The Machine (I & II)
Scales
[Little Box: Coyote and the Quail]
Birdsong
Coda
Origin Story
[Little Box: Ezekiel and the Word]
The Material World
Catalog
Copper War Statues
[Little Box: Sundiata and Sogolon]
Catalog
Hagiographies
[Little Box: Purple Martins]
Four Koans
Prayer Is Better Than Sleep
[Little Box: Sappho and Orpheus]
Alphabet
Postlude
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Text
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Phoenix Poets |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 286 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-84384-X / 022684384X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-84384-1 / 9780226843841 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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