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Daniel Lusk
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Daniel Lusk, a native of rural Iowa and the Midwest, lives in Vermont. His poems and stories have appeared in many literary journals including American Poetry Review, New Letters, and North American Review. He is the author of two books Homemade Poems: A Handbook and O,Rosie, a novel, and three poetry chapbooks, Daniel has twice been awarded literary fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and in 1995 was winner of the Gertrude B. Claytor Award of the Poetry Society of America. He is Associate Dean for academic programs in the Division of Continuing Education as well as Director of the Summer Writing Program at the University of Vermont. |
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The Vermont given us by these six talented poets is definitely not the Vermont of Robert Frost. Their lives are the life of the new Vermont--the spirit of a place now as much cosmopolitan and contradictory as rural and traditional. I love the freshness of the voices gathered here. The poets want to surprise themselves and us. And so they are by turns grave, sexy, smart-mouthed and bumptious, vulnerably tender, bittersweet, fierce, and even praiseful. It may not be Frost’s Vermont, but the poetry in Onion River does what he said poetry must do--“begin in delight and end in wisdom.” Grateful thanks to all involved in bringing this book to us, and especially the poets themselves.
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| Kissing the Ground: New & Selected Poems |
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Daniel Lusk
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Evocative and haunting, Daniel Lusk’s poems have their spiritual origins in myth and human lore, and their emotional roots in prayer regret. They suggest a world in which imagination leads to something false but eternal, and brute nature stands for something true but lost.
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