Every Dark Waning

by A. Davida Jane

Overview

In this collection of poems, A. Davida Jane writes with a sharply honed honesty. She writes of sleepless nights, of days spent alone, but also of the reasons to keep fighting—be it poetry, a girl, the sky, or even the promise of one day feeling okay again.

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CELESTIAL BODIES is the study of poetry as body; of gleaning words from stars. The series aims to entice and encompass, to invite the reader to enter their orbit, to begin anew.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781999773656
Publisher:	Platypus Press
Publication date:	08/01/2018
Series:	Celestial Bodies Poetry Series , #3
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

A. Davida Jane is a young bisexual poet from Wellington, New Zealand. She studies English Literature Classics at Victoria University. Growing up she could always be found with a book in her hand, and now often a pen, but either way she is almost always thinking about words.

Table of Contents

Severe Weather Warning

The Poet as a Man-Made Lake 7. The Praying Man

Arbores

The Scientific Facts of Sleeplessness

An Attempt at an Explanation

Pink Sky

Upturned

Apollo 11

Tell Me about the Moon

Long Distance

The House of Pindar

A Study in Restoration

Gilded Butterfly Bones

Quicksand

An Unmaking

The Highway Mirage 36. Dear Diary

The Nameless Thing

Nutritional

Dug up Stomach

The Starved

When Your Home Is Not Your Home & Your Body Is Not Your Own

Depression as a Forest

War Chant

Halfway into the Lake

Sunflowering

Mortal Shoulders

You Found a Poet in the Forest

A Poem for Those Who Watch the Stars at 2am

Glass Slipper Hearts

Doorstep

The Moon in the Lake

Growing Pains

Star Curator

Ocean Song

The Longest Night

A Love Poem for an Imaginary Girl

The Old Bicycle

And Yes

Love & Other Sweet Things We Expect Too Much Of

Portrait of a Kiss

For Virginia

Editorial Reviews

“This is a terrific new collection—assured, inventive, moving, funny, coherent in its themes and motifs, contemporary in its clever titling of poems, management of form and imagery, and presentation of a constructed, contested, yet lived (and loved) self. It is full of ghosts, floods, forests—everything we need to think about the apocalypse that is our lives!” —Antonia H Jackson

“If I highlighted every line I loved in this poetry collection, the book would be more bright yellow than white.” —Elvier Roegiers

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