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    Days & Chances

    Part of Penguin Poets

    Author Joanna Klink
    Paperback
    $20.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    6"W x 9"H | 5 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Sep 15, 2026 | 96 Pages | 9780143138570
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    From “a poet of lyric wonderment, angular beauty, and uncompromising vision” (Poetry Northwest), a luminous new meditation on loss and love

    In Joanna Klink’s dreamlike sixth poetry collection, she turns her gaze to ordinary days and asks: What is the measure of a life? How should we weigh time, luck, love? Against the extreme terrain of Texas—with its soaring temperatures, ice storms, and flash floods—she tries to make sense of the loss of natural spaces, her father going blind, falling in love mid-life. Each of her poems embodies what Virginia Woolf described as “moments of being”: moments of awareness and intense feeling in which we become conscious of our connection to the world around us. Flickering between personal and ecological time, Klink’s poems deepen those connections even as the landscapes and relationships around her become less recognizable. Days & Chances helps us see the depths in everyday moments—and chances to live more fully.
    “Joanna Klink’s elegant and powerful poems seem often preternaturally sensitive to even the most minute shifts of human interiority. Book by book, she has recalibrated the terms of the lyric meditation, letting her exquisitely nuanced deflections of syntax expose those often-shifting layers of instability at the core of experience. This is a poet capable of making luminous those delicate declensions of hope pulsing in our daily lives.” —David St. John, author of The Last Troubadour
    © Antonia Wolf
    Joanna Klink is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Nightfields.  She teaches at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, and has received awards and fellowships from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Trust of Amy Lowell, and the Guggenheim Foundation. View titles by Joanna Klink

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    From “a poet of lyric wonderment, angular beauty, and uncompromising vision” (Poetry Northwest), a luminous new meditation on loss and love

    In Joanna Klink’s dreamlike sixth poetry collection, she turns her gaze to ordinary days and asks: What is the measure of a life? How should we weigh time, luck, love? Against the extreme terrain of Texas—with its soaring temperatures, ice storms, and flash floods—she tries to make sense of the loss of natural spaces, her father going blind, falling in love mid-life. Each of her poems embodies what Virginia Woolf described as “moments of being”: moments of awareness and intense feeling in which we become conscious of our connection to the world around us. Flickering between personal and ecological time, Klink’s poems deepen those connections even as the landscapes and relationships around her become less recognizable. Days & Chances helps us see the depths in everyday moments—and chances to live more fully.

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    “Joanna Klink’s elegant and powerful poems seem often preternaturally sensitive to even the most minute shifts of human interiority. Book by book, she has recalibrated the terms of the lyric meditation, letting her exquisitely nuanced deflections of syntax expose those often-shifting layers of instability at the core of experience. This is a poet capable of making luminous those delicate declensions of hope pulsing in our daily lives.” —David St. John, author of The Last Troubadour

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    © Antonia Wolf
    Joanna Klink is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Nightfields.  She teaches at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, and has received awards and fellowships from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Trust of Amy Lowell, and the Guggenheim Foundation. View titles by Joanna Klink

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