Daniel Hall (poet)

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

Life

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

Hall's second book, Strange Relation, was selected by Mark Doty as winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series.^[1] His latest book is Under Sleep.

He was a judge for the James Laughlin awards.^[2]

He currently lives in Amherst, Massachusetts^[1] and is Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College.^[3] He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.^[4]

Awards

• Ingram Merrill Foundation,^[5]
• National Endowment for the Arts
• Whiting Foundation^[6]
• Guggenheim Foundation
• 1996 National Poetry Series for Under Sleep
• 1992-1993 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar
• 1990 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, for Hermit with Landscape (Yale, 1990), selected by James Merrill

Works

• Then, University of Chicago
• A Winter Apple, Amherst Magazine, Winter 2007

Books

• Hermit with Landscape, (Yale, 1990)
• Strange Relation, National Poetry Series 1995
• Under Sleep, Phoenix Poets, University of Chicago, 2007, ISBN 978-0226313320.

Interviews

• J. D. MCCLATCHY The Art of Poetry No. 84, The Paris Review, Issue 163, Fall 2002

Reviews

“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.^[7]

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.^[8]

Highly Recommended^[9]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Hall, Daniel (1990), Hermit with Landscape, Yale University Press
2. ^ http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/109
3. ^ "Amherst College Faculty Bio"
4. ^ http://www.thecommononline.org/about
5. ^ http://www.sviastonington.org/write.htm
6. ^ http://www.bookreporter.com/features/2001-whiting.asp
7. ^ Brad Leithauser, Getting Things Right, The New York Review of Books, Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996
8. ^ Getting to the point: Memorable verse ranges from the darkly comic to the impressionistic, The Chicago Tribune, Katie Peterson, August 04, 2007
9. ^ MASSBOOKS OF THE YEAR/POETRY

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