{"product_id":"dusk-empire-new-and-selected-paperback-1","title":"Dusk, Empire: New and Selected - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Tobin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDusk, Empire: New and Selected Poems 1987-2024\u003c\/i\u003e is a panoramic collection of Daniel Tobin's most exemplary, ambitious, and accomplished poems from nearly forty years at work in the art. These range from his award-winning first book, \u003ci\u003eWhere the World is Made, \u003c\/i\u003e through successive volumes that reveal a progressive deepening of his essential themes even as the poems evolve to an ever more refined technical risk and mastery. These themes include the unflinching encounter with time, suffering, and mortality, as well as what one earlier reviewer called \"a quest for transcendence, a search for the sacred.\" They seek, in short, to do, as another reviewer observed, what Yeats said was \"one ideal for poetry: to hold justice and reality in a single thought.\" In so doing, Tobin's poems probe the individual life in relation to the pressures of history, including his own family's perilous and traumatic immigration from famine in the 19th century--a backstory he explores in \u003ci\u003eThe Narrows\u003c\/i\u003e, which he has called \"a mural in verse.\" At the same time, his \"Homage to Bartolomeo de las Casas\" delves into the fraught early colonial history of the Americas through the eyes of the eponymous friar, a repentant colonizer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese earlier works establish Tobin's mastery of the poetic sequence, among a wide variety of other formal displays, all amply evident in the books that follow, including the lyrically meditative orchestrations of \u003ci\u003eSecond Things\u003c\/i\u003e, the award-winning poems of \u003ci\u003eBelated Heavens\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Net\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlood Labors\u003c\/i\u003e, characterized at once by their compendious erudition, their sense of intellectual and cultural history, as well as their emotional urgency and formal variousness. This generous selection from Tobin's work is intended to be a companion volume to \u003ci\u003eThe Mansions\u003c\/i\u003e, his trilogy of book-length poems that explore twentieth century history, and the counter claims of science and religion, through three exemplary lives, which reviewers said inspired genuine awe. Finally, \u003ci\u003eDusk, Empire\u003c\/i\u003e leads with a gripping selection of new work that engages the enormous pressures and troubles of the present historical moment, set in dialogue with Tobin's characteristic passion for what would transcend it. Or as he asks in \"The Sand Painting,\" \"What is that joyous singing inside the rock \/ Though each intricate, lovely thing will be erased?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Tobin is the author of ten books of poems, most recently \u003ci\u003eBlood Labors\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), which the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e named one of the Best Poetry Books of the year, and \u003ci\u003eThe Mansions\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), a trilogy of book-length poems which won the Human Relations Indie Book Award and the National Indie Excellence Award in Poetry. A suite of versions from the German of Paul Celan, \u003ci\u003eThe Stone in the Air\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2018, and a chapbook, \u003ci\u003eGloss Arias I: From the Distances of Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2025. He is the author of several critical studies, among them \u003ci\u003eOn Serious Earth: On Poetry and Transcendence\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eThe Odeon: Essays on Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2025), as well as the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and \u003ci\u003eTo the Many: Collected Early Works of Lola Ridge\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), which received a Special Commendation from the Poetry Society (UK). His many awards include the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, the Julia Ward Howe Prize, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.03 x 8.99 x 6.23 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47533641531641,"sku":"9781961897762","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/qCpD6kFR_m9781961897762_890a77e5-4fee-4bd1-8493-1d304182e758.webp?v=1773874661","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/dusk-empire-new-and-selected-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}