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Daniel Halpern, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (219p) ISBN 978-0-679-42986-9
Halpern ( Foreign Neon ), editor of the Ecco Press and Antaeus , is a poet who writes with an expansive modesty that allows him a freedom to consider what matters to him realistically. The poems are the record of his considerations. Their anti-heroic
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Daniel Halpern, Author Viking Books $17.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-670-81544-9
The poems in Halpern's latest collection are bittersweet postcards redolent with travels and memories. A cafe in Tangiers, vacations on Maine's coast, a boyhood in Chicago, the shooting of a friend on a Mexican busall are pieces in a jigsaw puzzle...
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Daniel Halpern, Author Puffin Books $10.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-14-058588-9
This sixth poetry collection by the editor of Antaeus and Echo Press mostly flows from personal experience, recalling vacations on Maine's coast, a boyhood in Chicago, the shooting of a friend on a Mexican bus. PW called the poems ""bittersweet...
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Daniel Halpern, Author Knopf Publishing Group $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-375-40733-8
Elegies, ghazals, epigrams, travel poems, and domestic verses present Halpern (Foreign Neon) as an articulate, amiable, comfortable, middle-aged man contemplating, in this ninth collection, mortality, fatherhood, friendship, food and wine--sometimes
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Daniel Halpern, Author, D. Halpern, Author Harper Perennial $25 (328p) ISBN 978-0-06-018240-3
The growing American preoccupation with spirituality could seek refinement and identity from this anthology compiled by Halpern (The American Poetry Anthology). Defining his criteria of selection more as anomalous power of voice and vision than...
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Daniel Halpern, Author, E. Sifton, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $19 (85p) ISBN 978-0-679-40636-5
The poems in Halpern's seventh collection are mostly domestic recollections, backward glances from a point in life shared with ``the second generation / of pets, whose kidneys have already / begun to fail.'' While the poems often originate in...
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