Dan_Chiasson

Dan Chiasson

Dan Chiasson

American poet


Dan Chiasson (/ˈsən/; born May 9, 1971[1] in Burlington, Vermont) is an American poet, critic, and journalist. The Sewanee Review called Chiasson "the country’s most visible poet-critic." He is the Lorraine Chao Wang Professor of English Literature at Wellesley College.

Dan Chiasson

Chiasson is the author of six books: The Afterlife of Objects (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Natural History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press, 2007), Where's the Moon, There's the Moon (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), Bicentennial (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) and The Math Campers (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020).

Chiasson is currently working on a nonfiction book about politics and change in American life, "Bernie for Burlington: Sanders in a Changing Vermont, 1968-1991," based in part on his own early memories of Mayor Sanders, to be published by Pantheon in 2025.

Life

Chiasson grew up in the city of Burlington as the only child of his single mother. He attended Catholic schools, Mater Christi School and Rice Memorial High School, from which he graduated in 1989.[2] He graduated summa cum laude in Classics and English from Amherst College[3] (1993), and from Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in English and was awarded the Whiting Foundation Award in the Humanities.

In addition to teaching at Wellesley, Chiasson has been affiliated with Boston University's Master of Fine Arts program, with NYU's program in Paris, France, and with the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Environmental Conference in Ripton, Vermont. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons.

Chiasson is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He was the poetry editor (with Meghan O'Rourke), and later advisory editor, of the Paris Review.[4] His poems have been translated into many languages, including German by Jan Wagner. His Natural History was published as Naturgeschichte at Luxbooks, a publishing house focused on American poetry in bilingual editions. In the UK, he is published by Bloodaxe Books.

He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.[5]

Honors and awards

Bibliography

See also links in the External links section below.

Poetry

Collections
  • Chiasson, Dan (2002). The afterlife of objects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • (2007). Natural history : poems. New York: Random House.
  • (2010). Where's the moon, there's the moon : poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • (2014). Bicentennial : poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • (2020). The math campers : poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Anthologies
  • Hix, H. L., ed. (2008). New voices : contemporary poetry from the United States. Irish Pages.
List of poems
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Criticism

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Notes
  1. Reviews Travisano, Thomas & Saskia Hamilton, eds. (2008). Words in air : the complete correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
  2. Online version is titled "Poetry of a childhood lost". Reviews Prikryl, Jana. The after party. Tim Duggan Books.
  3. Online version is titled "The illness and insight of Robert Lowell".
  4. Online version is titled "The great American poet of daily chores".
  5. Online version is titled "Shane McRae's poems to America".
  6. Online version is titled "The bittersweet poetry of 'Lima :: Limón'".
  7. Online version is titled "Tommy Pico filibusters mortality with poetry".
  8. Online version is titled "Inside Bernadette Mayer’s time capsule".
  9. Online version is titled "What the Bolinas poets built".

References


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