The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel

In his third collection of poems, Daniel Anderson ponders and celebrates the images, sounds, and tastes of contemporary life.

The poems in The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel navigate the evanescent boundaries between the public and the private self. Daniel Anderson’s settings are often social but never fail to turn inward, drowning out the chatter of conversation to quietly observe the truths that we simultaneously share and withhold from one another—even as we visit friends, celebrate...