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Book SynopsisNamed a Best Poetry Book of 2017 by the
New York Times Book Review,
Sun in Days is “O’Rourke’s most ravishing and brilliant collection yet” (Cathy Park Hong).
Trade Review"
Sun in Days takes up illness, motherhood and death in lyrics with an essayistic sense of exploration and self-adjustment." -- New York Times Book Review
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Sun in Days reminds me that beauty and loss are inextricable—and random, in a way that’s both shattering and strangely relieving." -- Atlantic
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Sun in Days is a marvel, a heartbreak." -- David Baker
"[A] lasting book.… The mind of the poems is so unexpectedly precise that it illuminates a signal range of human feeling with its compassionate questioning." -- Forrest Gander, Library of America
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Sun in Days is a beautiful collection by one of our best poets, a book that will help us rethink both grief and illness and how we treat those who are dealing with either. At its core, though, it’s also a book about the imagination’s resilience and a reckoning of its limitations and its needs, needs it receives from the world." -- The Rumpus
"In a confessional and plainspoken narrative mode, O’Rourke delves into memory and ‘the body’s failure.’" -- Publishers Weekly
"O’Rourke is excellent at limning the hazy sense of loss that inevitably defines our moving forward." -- Library Journal
"In the world of [
Sun in Days], what was longed for (but never was) is as meaningful as what happened, as true as what is, depending on the light. O’Rourke’s light is gorgeous and powerful." -- Brenda Shaughnessy
