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Natural History and Other Poems
Dan Chiasson
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Description for Natural History and Other Poems
Paperback. Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation'. This book brings together poems from his first two US collections, "The Afterlife of Objects" (2002) and "Natural History" (2005), along with his other work. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 206.
Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation' (Frank Bidart). This book - his first to be published in Britain - brings together poems from his first two US collections, "The Afterlife of Objects" (2002) and "Natural History" (2005), along with more recent work. His later collection, "Where's the Moon, There's the Moon", was published by Bloodaxe in 2010. "The Afterlife of Objects" is a kind of dreamed autobiography in which the enigmas of an individual mind become universal puzzles. "Natural History" takes its inspiration from Pliny's encyclopaedic "Historia Naturalis", ... Read more
Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation' (Frank Bidart). This book - his first to be published in Britain - brings together poems from his first two US collections, "The Afterlife of Objects" (2002) and "Natural History" (2005), along with more recent work. His later collection, "Where's the Moon, There's the Moon", was published by Bloodaxe in 2010. "The Afterlife of Objects" is a kind of dreamed autobiography in which the enigmas of an individual mind become universal puzzles. "Natural History" takes its inspiration from Pliny's encyclopaedic "Historia Naturalis", ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
BLOODAXE BOOKS
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247362
SKU
V9781852247362
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99-60
About Dan Chiasson
Dan Chiasson was born in Burlington, Vermont, and educated at Amherst College and Harvard University, where he completed a PhD in English. A widely published literary critic, Chiasson is a regular reviewer for The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review, poetry editor of the Paris Review, and has published a critical study, One Kind of Everything: Poem ... Read more
Reviews for Natural History and Other Poems
Dan Chiasson has succeeded in writing the poetry many of his generation aim for: free-swinging, gorgeous in phrase, bold in imagination, athletic in movement…the imagination is an organ of perception, a means of feeling.
Robert Pinsky Dan Chiasson is a wilfully literary poet – one who invokes (and impersonates) writers both classic and modern, meditates on the function of ... Read more
Robert Pinsky Dan Chiasson is a wilfully literary poet – one who invokes (and impersonates) writers both classic and modern, meditates on the function of ... Read more