Steady Daylight, the latest volume of poetry from Joseph Bathanti, returns to the place he grew up, the now-vanished neighborhood of East Liberty in Pittsburgh. The speaker traipses fearlessly between real and imagined realms, in the face of often conflicted sensibilities, secrets, and silence. While the physical touchstones of the “old” East Liberty have evanesced, Bathanti invents a world ample enough for the dead and the living through incantatory language thrumming with hope and photographic integrity. Ultimately, Steady Daylight is an elegy and a praise song, a heartbreakingly beautiful requiem.
Author: Joseph Bathanti
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 02/11/2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780807185858
Language: English
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