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Days & Chances - (Penguin Poets) by Joanna Klink (Paperback)

Name: Days & Chances - (Penguin Poets) by Joanna Klink (Paperback)
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From "a poet of lyric wonderment, angular beauty, and uncompromising vision" (Poetry Northwest), a luminous new meditation on loss and love In Joanna Klink's dreamlike sixth poetry collection, she turns her gaze to ordinary days and asks: What is the measure of a life?
About the Author: Joanna Klink is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Nightfields.
112 Pages
Poetry, Women Authors
Series Name: Penguin Poets

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From "a poet of lyric wonderment, angular beauty, and uncompromising vision" (Poetry Northwest), a luminous new meditation on loss and love

In Joanna Klink's dreamlike sixth poetry collection, she turns her gaze to ordinary days and asks: What is the measure of a life? How should we weigh time, luck, love? Against the extreme terrain of Texas--with its soaring temperatures, ice storms, and flash floods--she tries to make sense of the loss of natural spaces, her father going blind, falling in love mid-life. Each of her poems embodies what Virginia Woolf described as "moments of being" moments of awareness and intense feeling in which we become conscious of our connection to the world around us. Flickering between personal and ecological time, Klink's poems deepen those connections even as the landscapes and relationships around her become less recognizable. Days & Chances helps us see the depths in everyday moments--and chances to live more fully.

About the Author

Joanna Klink is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Nightfields. She teaches at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, and has received awards and fellowships from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Trust of Amy Lowell, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)

Weight: .81 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 112

Genre: Poetry

Sub-Genre: Women Authors

Series Title: Penguin Poets

Publisher: Penguin Books

Format: Paperback

Author: Joanna Klink

Language: English

Street Date: September 15, 2026

TCIN: 1008344779

UPC: 9780143138570

Item Number (DPCI): 247-54-0730

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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