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The poems in this collection are all set around the same time of day, at or near dawn. “Aurora Americana<\/em> explores an ominous yet hopeful new morning in America, one in which potential cataclysm exists alongside possibility and change,” the university press notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hardy, who works in varied poetic forms, including the sonnet, the triolet, and the ghazal, which has its origins in seventh-century Arabic poetry, recently told the literary journal The Rumpus<\/em><\/a> <\/em>he\u2019s never centered temporality this way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hardy to Read from Aurora American<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here on the Bates campus, Hardy will read from Aurora Americana<\/em> at Gomes Chapel at 7 p.m. on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is very new for me. Also, of course, there is the metaphor of ‘dawn’ that I hope the poems interrogate,” he said. “What does it mean to be on the cusp of something? Are we on the verge of evolution or devolution?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking of his process to The Rumpus<\/em>, Hardy described the inception of his poetry as an image or images. “I see something I can\u2019t shake,” he said. “The image remains in my mind. I dream about it. I wait for that particular image to morph, a subtle change in color or a repositioning. When that happens, I know I\u2019m in the process and nearing the page.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, Hardy “wait(s) for the music: the sound of a leaf sliding on asphalt, a river flowing over jagged rocks, etc. This is usually the sound I\u2019m trying to emulate in the poem. When this is clear, the language arrives in a line, sentence, stanza. The poem is in motion. I wake up before the sun emerges and write as its light covers the page.”<\/p>\n\n\n
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