{"product_id":"as-when-waking-9780226843841","title":"As When Waking","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of poetic form, centering on the alphabet as both its medium and constraint.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poems of Daniel Schonning's debut collection range from personal examinations of childhood suffering and loss of faith to deep observations of images and objects to the foreclosure of a family home, a father estranged by addiction, mallards on a frozen pond, flowering bindweed, and a door to the underworld. With all its component pieces, \u003ci\u003eAs When Waking\u003c\/i\u003e aims to apprentice itself to the medium of letters, inviting readers to listen and learn from the systems and symmetries of alphabets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Schonning employs structural paradigms to explore themes of poetic lineage. Twenty-six of the poems in this collection are abecedarians, a form where the opening letter of each line advances through the alphabet, with the lines of the first poem proceeding alphabetically from A-Z, while those of the second poem move from B-A, and then C-B, all the way to Z-A. This structure is tied to Jewish mystic texts such as the\u003ci\u003e Sefer Yetzirah\u003c\/i\u003e, which probes the relationship between the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the world they inhabit. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Schonning\u003c\/b\u003e's poetry has been published in \u003ci\u003eOrion Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Poetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePOETRY Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where he teaches creative writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and serves as a poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eSeneca Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623940981010,"sku":"9780226843841","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_45e7d120-b87b-4656-9c8d-785dbbb9656e.jpg?v=1758649680","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/as-when-waking-9780226843841","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}