Where Sunday Used to Be: New and Selected Poems
Ebook
These poems display a masterful and contemporary twist on a beloved poetic tradition that carefully employs the tools of meter, rhyme, and rhythm. Readers will find these poems to be both accessible and thought provoking. It is rare to encounter a poet capable of such range in tone and subject matter: from the humorous to the tragic, the divine to the devilish, the author expertly blurs the lines between our notions of the sacred and the secular.
“The poems of Daniel Klawitter are alive and lively, their skillful architecture raised on a firm foundation of wit, compassion, and spiritual intelligence. From his understated elegy for Anthony Bourdain to the subtle ‘Mixology,’ a pantoum that moves from the making of martinis to our very earth being ‘shaken and stirred,’ Klawitter is consistently playful and endlessly inventive. Where Sunday Used to Be is an exciting overview of a gifted poet’s fascinating, beautifully crafted body of work.”
—Ned Balbo, author of The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots
“Do not be deceived by the accessibility of Klawitter’s verse: this poet is ‘as slippery as a porpoise, / skimming the surface, then diving to the depths.’ Lines that initially make you laugh aloud will take root and lead to serious pondering. Klawitter draws on ancient philosophy, current politics, friendship, and love, to woo us with the art of his words to love justice and mercy and ‘our neighbors as ourselves.”
—Susan Delaney Spear, author of Beyond All Bearing
“Daniel Klawitter’s Where Sunday Used to Be is a book in love with life when it is fully lived, as when the poet writes of having ‘devoured the heart of the morning’ while his wife is still abed, concluding ‘Evening is for the insomniacs— / Sunrise is for the famished.’ This intelligent book is attuned to the wonder of the ways the universe unfolds itself for a poet who seeks ‘the poem behind the poem.’”
—Ernest Hilbert, author of Caligulan
- Title: Where Sunday Used to Be: New and Selected Poems
- Authors: Daniel Klawitter, David J. Rothman
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666759532, 9781666759525, 9781666759518, 1666759538, 166675952X, 1666759511
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666759532
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-18T20:17:47Z
Daniel Klawitter has been a community organizer and labor union activist, the lead singer/lyricist for the indie rock band Mining for Rain, a poetry book reviewer for NewPages.com, and the poetry editor for Doxology. He is a graduate of the Iliff School of Theology in Denver and is a professed religious brother in the Order of Saint Luke. His numerous literary awards include a Purple Dragonfly Book Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature.