Starting Out for the Difficult World

Literature & Fiction

Dana, Robert

Poetry

Harpercollins

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."

Starting Out for the Difficult

Anhinga Press

Denise Levertov writes of these poems; "These are poems of the inner life, or transfermatios effected in silence, a silence in which, note by note, a flute begins to play. They are introspective without being abstract: "Robert Dana has not turned away from the external world, he has brought its consecrations, "the unpurged images of a day", over a threshold onto an interior landscape".

Dana Some Versions of Silence (Paper)

W.W.Norton&Company

Poetry. "What I like best about Robert Dana's poems is his uncompromising refusal to romanticize his own experience.. This is the real world crashing in on the real world" -Lowell Jaeger, High Plains Literary Review.

Yes, Everything

United States

Jensen/Daniels

Yes, Everything: New Poems

Another Chicago Pr

Hello, Stranger

Poetry. "To begin at a margin and make oneself at home there has been Robert Dana's central method all along, as this fine collection of beach poems amply demonstrates. We're not born knowing how to love the world; we're born squalling. HELLO, STRANGER reminds us how much we can teach ourselves by strict attention and imagination" -William Matthews.

Poetry. "To begin at a margin and make oneself at home there has been Robert Dana's central method all along, as this fine collection of beach poems amply demonstrates. We're not born knowing how to love the world; we're born squalling. HELLO, STRANGER reminds us how much we can teach ourselves by strict attention and imagination" -William Matthews.

Summer

Poetry. After serving in the South Pacific at the end of World War II Robert Dana 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 has also served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Stockholm University and at several American colleges and universities.

Poetry. After serving in the South Pacific at the end of World War II Robert Dana 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 has also served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Stockholm University and at several American colleges and universities.

The Morning of The Red Admirals

Poetry. "In this, his tenth collection of poems, Robert Dana surprises, delights, and may even momentarily confound his readers with this ambitious book which is, above all, a work of transformations"- Richard Holinger. "[Dana's] clarity of vision and economy of means enact an exuberant encounter with the world; his vivid reading of his walk in the sun - 'Alive on the breath-edge of metaphor'- is at once bracing and wise. Robert Dana is a magnificent poet"- Christopher Merrill. Dana is the author of SUMMER and HELLO STRANGER (Anhinga Press) both available from SPD.

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Starting Out for the Difficult World

Starting Out for the Difficult

Dana Some Versions of Silence (Paper)

Yes, Everything

Yes, Everything: New Poems

Hello, Stranger

Hello, Stranger

Summer

Summer

The Morning of The Red Admirals