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Daniel Hall (poet)

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Daniel Hall
Born1952 (age 71–72)
NationalityAmerican
GenrePoetry

Daniel J. Hall (born 1952) is an American poet.

Life

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Hall's first book, Hermit with Landscape, was selected by James Merrill as winner of the 1989 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.[1][failed verification]

Hall's second book, Strange Relation, was selected by Mark Doty as winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series.[2][failed verification] His latest book is Under Sleep.

He was a judge for the James Laughlin awards.[3]

He currently lives in Amherst, Massachusetts[2][page needed] and was Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College until 2018.[4] He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.[5]

Awards

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Works

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Books

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  • Hermit with Landscape, (Yale, 1990)
  • Strange Relation, National Poetry Series 1995
  • Under Sleep, Phoenix Poets, University of Chicago, 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-31332-0.

Interviews

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Reviews

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“Daniel Hall’s work reminds us that a poet’s sharp-sightedness, the whole business of ‘getting things right,’ is a matter of far more than accuracy. It’s a matter of—inescapably—thanksgiving.[8]

Daniel Hall’s poetry also negotiates autobiography and desire, and much of his new collection, Under Sleep, pairs an impulse to elegy (it is dedicated to his late partner) with a love of perceptual activity, that impressionistic seeing and feeling that comes from the conflicting currents of mind and body and is the backbone of so much lyric poetry.[9]

Highly Recommended[10]

References

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  1. ^ Hall, Daniel (1990), Hermit with Landscape, Yale University Press
  2. ^ a b Hall, Daniel (1996), Strange Relation, Penguin Books
  3. ^ aapone (31 December 1979). "James Laughlin Award". Archived from the original on 23 April 2009. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
  4. ^ "Faculty & Staff - Hall, Daniel J. - Amherst College".
  5. ^ "About - The Common". 27 January 2012.
  6. ^ "The James Merrill Writer-in-Residence Program (SVIA)". www.sviastonington.org. Archived from the original on 14 April 2004. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Bookreporter.com - 2001 Whiting Writers' Award". bookreporter.com. Archived from the original on 5 December 2001. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  8. ^ Brad Leithauser, Getting Things Right, The New York Review of Books, Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996
  9. ^ Getting to the point: Memorable verse ranges from the darkly comic to the impressionistic, The Chicago Tribune, Katie Peterson, August 04, 2007
  10. ^ "MASSBOOKS OF THE YEAR/POETRY" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-27. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
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