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It Is Daylight.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

| April 27, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2009 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The poems in this bracing collection, which won the 2008 Yale Younger Poets prize, often suggest aftermath. Collins drops hints of a past narrative--"It's a shame / about adorable adults, / that they always seem like untrustworthy alcoholics"--but, within her stark tableaux, nothing is permitted to happen. The speaker, inevitably alone, is afraid of "seeing the refrigerator light go on," and requires ...

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