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Dan Chiasson



Average rating: 3.67 · 412 ratings · 72 reviews · 12 distinct worksSimilar authors
Natural History

3.83 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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Where's the Moon, There's t...

3.42 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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The Afterlife of Objects

3.96 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
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Bicentennial: Poems

3.22 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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The Math Campers: Poems

4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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One Kind of Everything: Poe...

3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
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Elizabeth Bishop: Objects &...

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Roads Taken: Contemporary V...

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The Paris Review, Issue 174...

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Bernie for Burlington: The ...

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“If you are made for flight, intended for it,
you had better find a pursuer, fast.
Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.”
Dan Chiasson

“Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs,
tossing grass up to heaven—as a distraction, not a prayer.

That’s not humility you see on our long final journeys
it’s procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down.

— Dan Chiasson, from “The Elephant,” Natural History. (Knopf; First edition. edition October 11, 2005)”
Dan Chiasson

“The most significant events, Bishop seems to argue, are destined to remain outside the scope of description. It is perhaps their very status as excessive or fugitive that makes them, in the end, significant. A poet who believes such things will not arrive uncomplicatedly at self-description.”
Dan Chiasson, One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America



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