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A collection of the author's finest works encompasses more than twenty years of writing and marks his growth as a poet and human being while offering struggling dialog between connection and detachment. Reprint.
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Daniel Halpern was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1945 and has lived in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, and Tangier, Morocco. He is the editor of Antaeus and of the Ecco Press, and a recipient of many grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Halpern teaches in the graduate writing program of Columbia University and divides his time between New York City and Princeton, New Jersey, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
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s selection from Daniel Halpern's seven previous volumes represents more than two decades of work. Finding a poetry in the dailiness of human experience, Halpern reaches into the least-known corners of the heart, with an ambition to transmute the occasions of life -- friendship, loss, isolation, love, and death -- into the melody of consciousness. Notable for their poise, lyric intensity, formal aptitude, and uncanny evocations of place and states of mind, these poems yield something special in their apparent simplicity.
From the restless youthful investigations of his first volume of poems, Traveling on Credit, to the more seasoned, penetrating vision of Tango and Foreign Neon, Halpern's inventions are graced by what Derek Walcott has praised as "the intimacy of a man talking honestly with himself." This collection illustrates the evolution of an authentic American voice whose power to delight and instruct is as undeniable as its mandate t
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