Common Ground

by John Daniel

Book by Daniel, John

Genres: Poetry

62 pages, Paperback

First published July 28, 1988

About the author

Born in South Carolina and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., John Daniel has lived in the West since 1966. After attending and dropping out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, he worked as a logger, railroad inspector, rock climbing instructor, hod carrier, and poet-in-the-schools. He began to write poetry and prose in the 1970s while living on a ranch in south-central Oregon. In 1982 he received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University, where he then took an M.A. in English/Creative Writing and taught five years as a Jones Lecturer in Poetry and a lecturer in Freshman English. He now makes his living as a writer and itinerant teacher in workshops and writer-in-residence positions around the country. 

Reviews

[Patrice · Rating 4 out of 5]

John was a graduate student in Stanford's Creative Writing Program when I worked in the English department. I remember hearing him read at Thursday afternoon poetry readings several times. These are wonderful nature poems. They are timeless.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 D184c 1988