Whatever Light Used to Be

Author(s):
Dan Howell
Book summary:

a chapbook of poems

Publication year:
2018
Publisher:
Workhorse
Praise:
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Dan Howell’s voice rises elegant and calm through the carved surfaces of these poems. Regarding the strangeness of everyday moments with wonder, these amazing poems remind us that the broken world still lives.
Credit:
– Cynthia Huntington, author of Heavenly Bodies
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The marvelous poems in Whatever Light Used To Be move against the gravity of time and corrosion toward moments of ecstasy that are all the more convincing and ecstatic for their refusal to forget the gravity they momentarily overcome. These are seasoned poems, tough, disquieting and beautiful, impossible to forget.
Credit:
Alan Shaprio, author of Reel to Reel
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Short bio:
Dan Howell's collection of poems, Lost Country (Massachusetts), was the runner-up for the Norma Farber First Book Award of the Poetry Society of America, and short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. Other awards include a Writing Fellowship (Poetry) at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Tom McAfee Discovery Award (Missouri Review), and a citation for Notable Essay in Best American Essays 1993. A chapbook of poems, Whatever Light Used to Be (Workhorse), was published in 2018; Eden Incarnadine, a book-length poem, was published by Broadstone Books in 2019. MA, SUNY-Buffalo. MFA, UC-Irvine.
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