Daniel Tobin
Daniel Tobin is the author of eight books of poems: Where the World is Made, Double Life, The Narrows, Second Things, Belated Heavens (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, 2011) The Net, the book-length poem, From Nothing, and Blood Labors (Fall 2018), along with the critical studies and Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Awake in America: On Irish American Poetry, and On Serious Earth (forthcoming 2019). He is the editor of The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Light in Hand: The Selected Early Poems and Lola Ridge, Poet’s Work, Poet’s Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art, and The Collected Early Poems of Lola Ridge. Among his awards are the “The Discovery/The Nation Award,” The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, and creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
