Katz, Vincent: Daffodil (HB)

Knopf, hardcover Publication Date: March 4, 2025 Publisher Marketing: Stopping time on the page to discover the poetic moment where past and present are one, Vincent Katz (called a poet of "vibrant cinematic hunger" by Eileen Myles) opens himself to the fleeting beauty of both culture and nature in this stunning gathering of new work. With his painterly eye and disarming concision on the page, Katz opens this book with a powerful image of "all time sequestered in the fold of a daffodil," setting the stage for an encounter with the immediacy we must embrace to see the world around us with clarity. At the center of this collection are his captivating poems about animals--"The hope in fear / In thrill to run" of the rabbit, the snapping turtle "nestled // Next to brother rock"--as the poems continually engage with the heady passage of days and years, and the promise to honor a life in the here and now, to walk the street with the sense that, "It's not about buying / But rather about feeli