The Night Is What It Eats - Paperback

by Danielle Hanson (Author)

Magical realist poems, odes to nature and natural forces, and elegies to animals loved and unloved.

Danielle Hanson's latest collection of poems, The Night Is What It Eats, explores several interlacing themes: saints complaining about their Heaven, body parts disassembled and put to use in a surrealistic bending of reality, elegies to animals loved and unloved. These magical realist poems and odes to nature and natural forces address the world we live in, but dismantled and reassembled. Parts of the whole are set free, like St. Lucia's eyes, to see the world on their own.

Author Biography

Danielle Hanson is author of Fraying Edge of Sky, winner of the 2017 Codhill Press Poetry Prize, and Ambushing Water, Finalist for the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award; and editor of Objects in This Mirror (coedited with Julia Beach Anderson) and Sightlines: View Points on Susheel Kumar Sharma's "The Door is Half Open." She is Marketing Director for Sundress Publications and teaches poetry at UC Irvine. She serves as the Poet Laureate of Costa Mesa, California.