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