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Dan Chiasson teaches at Wellesley College. His next book of poems, Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon, will be published this year by Alfred A. Knopf.
Poetry
From Hide and Seek
Dan Chiasson
Hide and Seek Once, north of here, a child played hide-and-seek. His part was to hide, ergo he played his role and hid. The seeker, embarrassed by his role, thinking ...
Poetry
From Satellites
Dan Chiasson
Orbit You have this big capacity, small speck: barely there at all until the sun detects your metal shell, then only than a pinprick; and yet you can predict the ...
Essays
What Color is Jerboa Fur?
Dan Chiasson
From Satellites
Dan Chiasson
Jun 1 2009
Orbit You have this big capacity, small speck: barely there at all until the sun detects your metal shell, then only than a pinprick; and yet you can predict the ...What Color is Jerboa Fur?
Dan Chiasson
Jan 1 2004
“I know more of farm life,” Ezra Pound said of Robert Frost’s second volume, North of Boston, “than I did before I had read his poems. That means I know more of ‘Life.’” In ...
