Dan Chiasson's first book of poems,
The Afterlife of Objects appeared in 2002. A widely published literary critic, Chiasson is the author of
One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Whiting Writers’ Award.
Natural History is his most recent collection of poetry.
Earlier this week I asked him what he was reading. His reply:
John Ashbery: Collected Poems, V. 1 (Library of America)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience"
Interviews with Glenn Gould
James Wood, How Fiction Works
Read
a few poems from Chaisson's Natural History.
--Marshal Zeringue
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