Sun in Days

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By Meghan O’Rourke

Published Sept. 18, 2017

Meghan O’Rourke writes of the frailty of the body, longing for a child, and the permanence of loss in Sun in Days (W.W. Norton), her newest book of poetry. It is her most ambitious book yet, dealing with loss, illness, pregnancy, and motherhood in formally ambitious poems and lyric essays.

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