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Poetry. Newly available from SPD, STARTING OUT FOR THE DIFFICULT WORLD (Harper & Row, 1987) was Cornell professor Robert Dana's fourth collection of poetry. He is a writer of strong, rich experience, which spans the city slums where he was born and came of age to the fields and skies and towns of Iowa where Dana lived and taught for many years. Tense to the point of being enigmatic, Dana is a poet whose voice one trusts: what he says he feels is validated by the precision and force of the saying itself. At the time of its publication, M.L. Rosenthal commented about STARTING OUT FOR THE DIFFICULT WORLD: "Robert Dana's new book is dangerously alive with contradictory states of feeling. The poems are harsh and rich at the same time; they're painfully lonely yet manage to share the loneliness."
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Robert Dana was born in Boston in 1929. After serving in the South Pacific at the end of World War II, he moved to Iowa where he attended Drake University and The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poetry has won several awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and The Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. Retired from teaching after forty years as Poet-in-Residence at Cornell College, he served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Stockholm University and at several American colleges and universities. Dana was named Poet Laureate for the state of Iowa. He passed away in 2010.
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All This Way
Angels And Deaths In St. Augustine
Ark & Covenant
At The Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, D.c.
Bad Heart
Black Angel
Black Light
Blood Harvest
Blue Run
Bread
Driving The Coeur D'alene Without You
Everything Else You Can Get You Take
Getting It Right
Heat
Horses
I Used To Think So
I'm Lucky
Key West: Looking For Hemingway
Luck
Mineral Point
Mnemosyne
My Kind
New Snow At Goodlove's Grave
Ninety-one In The Shade
Notre Dame De Paris, 1974
Now
On A View Of Paradise Ridge From A Rented House
On The Public Beach, St. Augustine
Prayer In A Time Of Murder And Suicide On The Farm
A Short History Of The Middle West
Starting Out For The Difficult World
Thaw
They Know The Beautiful Are Risen
To A Cockroach
Transferences
True Story
Victor
Watching The Nighthawk's Dive
What The Stones Know
Wichita
Written In Winter
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Angels And Deaths In St. Augustine
Ark & Covenant
At The Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, D.c.
Bad Heart
Black Angel
Black Light
Blood Harvest
Blue Run
Bread
Driving The Coeur D'alene Without You
Everything Else You Can Get You Take
Getting It Right
Heat
Horses
I Used To Think So
I'm Lucky
Key West: Looking For Hemingway
Luck
Mineral Point
Mnemosyne
My Kind
New Snow At Goodlove's Grave
Ninety-one In The Shade
Notre Dame De Paris, 1974
Now
On A View Of Paradise Ridge From A Rented House
On The Public Beach, St. Augustine
Prayer In A Time Of Murder And Suicide On The Farm
A Short History Of The Middle West
Starting Out For The Difficult World
Thaw
They Know The Beautiful Are Risen
To A Cockroach
Transferences
True Story
Victor
Watching The Nighthawk's Dive
What The Stones Know
Wichita
Written In Winter
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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- PublisherHarpercollins
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0060550945
- ISBN 13 9780060550943
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages95
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 95 pp. A small black mark on the front of the dj, visible in the photo. Dana is the author of In a Fugitive Season; The Power of the Visible; Some Versions of Silence; Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick American Publishers; Blood Harvest; What the Stones Know; Journeys from the Skin; The Dark Flags of Waking; My Glass Brother and Other Poems. 'Great art, someone said, / rides on the backs of the poor. / Perhaps that's so. But this / is not Long Island. No packed / white waves leap yelping on the shore. / Here, the nights are cold and starry. / Three solitary clouds pig along / the near horizon. And you could / mistake this autumn for Keats's / or your own, or the / autumn of someone you once new.'--from ''Starting Out for the Difficult World.''. Seller Inventory # 000413
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