Anthony Caleshu is the author of a novella, a critical monograph on the American poet James Tate, and two books of poetry, including Of Whales: In Print, in Paint, in Sea, in Stars, in Coin, in House, in Margins, which was named a 2010 Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph. He is also a 2010 recipient of the Boston Review Poetry Prize. Caleshu serves as a professor of poetry at Plymouth University in southwest England and lives there and on Cape Cod.

From The Victor Poems

by Anthony Caleshu

Where the Light Becomes
the Land

There is nothing gradual about the light.

It’s as sudden as overnight, after six months of overnight.

It comes bubbling up like a spring where there are no springs.

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