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Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite
Andrew Daniels’s Tomorrow’s Rain is a collection of poetry that functions as a phantasmagorical seven-day journey along the shores of Washington state. The collection introduces a solitary speaker who drifts between sea and desert, traverses the footprints of giants, and crosses the Narrows Bridge. Part surreal memoir, part travelogue, the book melds verse and prose across numbered days, with short, captivating standalone poems. This collection charts a dreamlike path from a September beach through coastal villages and winter snowfields to autumn fires. The narrator spills coffee, counts the days, and folds paper airplanes while struggling with memories of a painful past. Encounters with a weeping mermaid and a nameless Cherokee chief punctuate the poetic utterances.
Andrew Daniels’s work is flooded with metaphors and recursive symbolism: glass bottles carry messages across oceans, paper airplanes become burning truths, and blue diamonds and red roses become emblems of courage. The persona repeatedly establishes a contrast between the artificial and the natural, such as the moon against the lightbulb, the tide versus the coffee stain, the feather against the steel chain, to discuss nostalgia, impermanence, and self-knowledge. The tone in Tomorrow’s Rain changes from childlike wonder to existential fear, often within the same sentence. The juxtapositions (a scarecrow and snowman at truce and a karate fighter breaking facts) probe how memory can distort reality. The author gives his work the rhythm of everyday life with mundane imagery such as stop signs, the persistent rain, and traffic signs. Through its allegories and mosaic of dreams, this collection explores the art of survival. The fascinating illustrations augment the beauty of the poetry.
