Circadian (Penguin Poets)

A beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet \ \ The poems in Joanna Klink's new collection __Circadian__ take as their guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and withdrawal of light, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, the migratory cycles of birds. With love poems and prayers, Joanna Klink offers us patterns of glowing alertness and shared life, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between inner and outer landscapes, that bind each beating heart to the pull of the tides.

A beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet

The poems in Joanna Klink's passionate new collection Circadian take as their guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and withdrawal of light, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, the migratory cycles of birds. With love poems and wintry prayers, Joanna Klink offers us patterns of glowing alertness and shared life, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between inner and outer landscapes, that bind each beating heart to the pull of the tides.

Colorado Review

[This is] beautiful writing, sensuous and troubling.

Auroras -- Day window -- River in dusk -- Apology -- Draftsmanship -- Sea levels -- Grassfield -- Antelope -- And having lost track -- Porch in snow -- Vireo -- Blue ice -- Raven -- Sea by Dusk -- Mariana Trench -- Shooting star -- Peripheries -- Winter field -- Thoughts on fog -- The eventides -- Sea by flowers -- Four messages -- Excerpts from a secret prophecy -- Terrarium -- Northern -- Whoever like you and all doves -- Studies for an estuary -- Hourglass.