{"product_id":"as-when-waking-paperback-1","title":"As When Waking - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Schonning\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of poetic form, centering on the alphabet as both its medium and constraint.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 9.5 x 6.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354109821177,"sku":"9780226843841","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/wxGSl3ThHj9780226843841_b926b413-074f-4955-8273-63d90e8fced5.webp?v=1769829216","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/as-when-waking-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}