"In a confessional and plainspoken narrative mode, O'Rourke delves into memory and 'the body's failure.' " -- Publishers Weekly "Meghan O'Rourke's new Sun in Days is a marvel, a heartbreak. O'Rourke pushes her poetry to include tactics her brilliant prose has often pursued-more information, more speculation, more room to meditate." -- David Baker "Meghan O'Rourke's Sun In Days is a lyric meditation on what happens to consciousness when the body ineluctably fails. As a self-portrait of chronic illness, her collection compassionately celebrates the sensuality of experience and mourns its gradual and mysterious loss. This is O'Rourke's most ravishing and brilliant collection yet." -- Cathy Park Hong "In long lines-like long nights of love or suffering-or in fleeting scenes like snapshots, O'Rourke reminds us that life (in a body, of the mind) is a dappled thing, patchy and reverberating. The poet's heat-seeking intelligence detects primal unanswered questions (of pain, of desire, of loss) and finds new ways to throw light on them... In the world of [Sun in Days], what was longed for (but never was) is as meaningful as what happened, as true as what is, depending on the light. O'Rourke's light is gorgeous and powerful." -- Brenda Shaughnessy

Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the poetry collections Halflife and Once, and a memoir, The Long Goodbye. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, among them The New Yorker and Slate. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and other awards, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.