Day for Night

Poetry. DAY FOR NIGHT, Richard Deming's searching new collection of poems, takes its title from the cinematic term for shooting night scenes during the day. With a complex lyricism, these poems often explore the ways that art, in whatever form, creates the possibilities of an address by which we hope to encounter other people even as it reveals the impossibilities of ever truly knowing others or ourselves. Haunting the poems in echoes and allusions is Shakespeare's Hamlet and that play's profound meditation on skepticism and the role of art in knowing the self. The poems bring together high and pop culture, hope and loss, loneliness and belonging, melancholy and transcendence.

Author: Richard Deming

Publisher: Shearsman Books

Publication Date: Apr 08, 2016

Number of Pages: 82 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1848614853

ISBN-13: 9781848614857