Dailies & Rushes: Poems

by Susan Kinsolving, Richard Howard (Preface)

A National Book Critic’s Circle the “late but brilliant debut” volume that rocketed the acclaimed poet to prominence (The New York Times).   In her first full-length volume of poems, Susan Kinsolving demonstrates an elegant mastery of craft that can only be achieved through decades of refinement. Dailies and Rushes is both a debut collection and a major work by an accomplished poet. Indeed, as Carol Muske points out in her review of this book for The New York Times, “each poem here seems an accomplishment, in the sense of a realized expression as well as structural finality.”   With disarming insight, brutal irony, and playful half-buried puns that hit both the eye and the ear, “Kinsolving’s poems skate with a dark elegance on the thin ice between the upper air and a deepening sorrow, between the day’s figures and memory’s pattern. But she’s headed towards the distant shore, the beckoning warmth; and by the end of Dailies & Rushes she has gotten herself—and, to our delight and gratitude, brought us as well—triumphantly there” (J. D. McClatchy).

Genres: Poetry

107 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Miriam Hrádeľová · Rating 5 out of 5]

CHYBALO MI TO. Donútila ma pozerať sa na svet cez poéziu a opäť ju začať písať.

[Emmaline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stunning. She made excellent use of internal rhyme. Some of the most musical poems I've read in a while.

[Meaghan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was alright. I read the uncorrected proof so I have to give it grace. Some of the language was beautiful, but in my personal opinion, some of the rhyming, especially at the end of the poems, took me out of the mood that was set and made their impact lessen.
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That said, I still had a few favorites from the collection:
-"Snow Sleep"
-"Peelings"
-"Parting Gift"
-"Admission of Two"
-"Waiting Them Out"
-"Dance Steps"
-"My Late Father's Junk Mail"
-"Last Call"
-"An Insomniac's Syringa"

[Elliott James Fraser · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wowee.
Of all the poetry books on my shelf this is the one.
Worth the money for Happenstance alone.
This is the one for me.
I return to this book often and is probably my favourite along with anything why Andrea Gibson.

[Mel · Rating 2 out of 5]

some I liked

[Klára · Rating 4 out of 5]

Keby mala Mary Oliver dieťa s Lanou. Bolo to také ženské, nežné a zároveň ma to zhltlo ako jednohubku. Básne znejú ako piesne vďaka geniálnym rýmom!

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was very lucky to have workshopped and met the author herself prior to reading this collection. There are so many touching and cleverly written poems. Definitely would recommend "Thirteen By Thirteen."

[Cori · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully written. Great language. Relatable. Imagery. I love this author's use of allusion.

[Jonathan Rosenthal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty dark poems but stirring. I enjoyed this volume though they poems didn't stay with me at all.