Dailies & Rushes

A National Book Critic's Circle Award-finalist: the "e;late but brilliant debut"e; 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, "e;each poem here seems an accomplishment, in the sense of a realized expression as well as structural finality."e; With disarming insight, brutal irony, and playful half-buried puns that hit both the eye and the ear, "e;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 love: 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"e; (J. D. McClatchy).