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illness and how we treat thosewho are dealing with either.At its core,though,it's also a book aboutthe imagination's resilience and a reckoning of its limitations and itsneeds,needs it receives from the world.\"—Rumpus  \n\"In formally restless poems,[Meghan]O’Rourke braids whole lineagesof grief that test what it means to survive when one is swallowed by loss,gut-dropped into the abyss of the self,living a present that is always pasttense.Instead of contributing to an atmosphere of depression or even ofbrooding darkness,the mind of the poems is so unexpectedly precisethat it illuminates a signal range of human feeling with its compassionatequestioning.”—Forrest Gander,Library of America  \n\"In a confessional and plainspoken narrative mode,O'Rourke delvesinto memory and 'the body's failure.”—Publishers Weekly  \n“O'Rourke is excellent at limning the hazy sense of loss that inevitablydefines our moving forward.\"—Library Journal  \n\"In longlines—like long nights oflove or suffering—or in fleeting sceneslike snapshots,O’Rourke reminds us that life (in a body,of the mind)is a dappled thing,patchy and reverberating.The poet's heat-seekingintelligence detects primal unanswered questions (of pain,of desire,ofloss)and finds new ways to throw light on them....In the world of[Sunin Days],what was longed for(but never was)is as meaningful as whathappened,as true as what is,depending on the light.O'Rourke's light isgorgeous and powerful.\"—Brenda Shaughnessy  \n\"Meghan O'Rourke's new Sun in Days is a marvel,a heartbreak.O'Rourkepushes her poetry to include tactics her brilliant prose has often pursued—more information,more speculation,more room to meditate.”  \n—David Baker  \n\"Meghan O'Rourke's Sun in Days is a lyric meditation on what happensto consciousness when the body ineluctably fails.As a self-portrait ofchronic illness,her collection compassionately celebrates the sensual-ity of experience and mourns its gradual and mysterious loss.This isO’Rourke's most ravishing and brilliant collection yet.”  \n—Cathy Park Hong  \nSun  \n1n  \nDays  \nA LSO BY ME GH AN o'ROU R K E  \nOnce:Poems  \nHalflife:Poems  \n# The Long Goodbye:A Memoir\n\n# SuninDays\n\nP OE M S  \nMEGHAN o'ROURKE  \nw.W.NORTON &COMPANY  \nIndependent Publishers Since 1923  \nNew York |London  \nCopyright ◎2017 by Meghan O'Rourke  \nAll rights reserved  \nPrinted in the United States of AmericaFirst published as a Norton paperback 2019  \nFor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book,write toPermissions,W.W.Norton &Company,Inc,500 Fifth Avenue,New York,NY 10110  \nFor information about special discounts for bulk purchases,please contactW.W.Norton Special Sales at specialsales@wwnorton.com or 800-233-4830  \nManufacturing by Berryville GraphicsBook design by Chris WelchProduction manager:Lauren Abbate  \n# Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data\n\nNames:O'Rourke,Meghan,author.  \nTitle:Sun in days:poems/Meghan O'Rourke.  \nDescription:First 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