Kissing the Ground: New and Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Lusk, Daniel

Poetry

Onion River Pr

In The Shower Scene from Hamlet poet Daniel Lusk is at his mature best, creating portraits and literary collages from the lives of artists, eccentrics, and famous public figures that ricochet across a millennium of the world's art and cultural history. The poet blends extraordinary facts and rumors about personalities long dead with intimate glimpses of his own peripatetic past for the enjoyment of readers.

The Shower Scene from Hamlet

Maple Tree Editions

Every Slow Thing

Kelsay Books

The poems in this new collection by Daniel Lusk have been inspired in large part by the wildlife he encountered while living at the edge of wilderness in northern Vermont. Lusk sings of nature's wild kingdom - animal, anima, animus - in which humans, animals, earth and its heavens are related in a marriage royal and holy: the porcupine in quill robe, the moose in his crown, birds whose songs can heal, moss rocks and wet caves, midnight caterwauls, and hemlock shadows. "Without bears, bats, or fire," he asks, "What is there to worship?" Kin has been a finalist for the Tupelo Press Dorset and Snowbound Awards, the Sarabande Press Morton Prize, and White Pine Press Book Award. Many of the individual poems in this collection were first published in national journals, among them Appalachia, The Iowa Review, New Letters, Nimrod International Journal, North American Review, and The Southern Review.

Wind Ridge Books

Daniel Lusk's memoir, Girls I Never Married, begins in Iowa at the end of the Great Depression. He was born to devoutly religious parents who "were renters and debtors, the working poor." Like many writers of his generation, his life and his writing developed against the backdrop of unrest and amid the struggle for cultural change in America - Civil Rights and Vietnam, the women's movement, communes, sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll - during the latter half of the 20th century. In Girls I Never Married Lusk shares his narrative dowry from mid-western preacher, rancher, and jazz singer to New England professor, poet, and minister of words.

Girls I Never Married: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Daniel Lusk's memoir, Girls I Never Married, begins in Iowa at the end of the Great Depression. He was born to devoutly religious parents who "were renters and debtors, the working poor." Like many writers of his generation, his life and his writing developed against the backdrop of unrest and amid the struggle for cultural change in America - Civil Rights and Vietnam, the women's movement, communes, sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll - during the latter half of the 20th century. In Girls I Never Married Lusk shares his narrative dowry from mid-western preacher, rancher, and jazz singer to New England professor, poet, and minister of words.

Girls I Never Married

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