Daniel Tobin is the author of nine books of poems, including From Nothing, winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award, The Stone in the Air, his suite of versions from the German of Paul Celan, and Blood Labors, named one of the Best Poetry Books of the Year for 2018 by the New York Times. His poetry has won many awards, among them the Massachusetts Book Award and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of the critical studies Passage to the Center, Awake in America and On Serious Earth: Poetry, a collection of essays on poetry. His latest full-length book, The Mansions, a trilogy of long poems that form a single design, won the National Indie Award. A chapbook, From the Distances of Sleep and The Odeon, are newly out. Dusk Empire: New and Selected Poems will appear in 2026.

Other poems by Daniel Tobin in Verse Daily:
September 13, 2018:   "Post-Orpheus" "Suns, choiring strings above..."
July 17, 2016:   "(Cove)" "Sometimes it's no different than the sound of the surf..."
November 23, 2004:  "To Acedia" Razor of nothingness, ash..."

Other poems on the web by Daniel Tobin:
Five poems
"Hunter Gatherers"
"The Turnpike"
"Last Song"
"The Net"
"The Ruin"
"Interval"
"Corpse Flower, Luna Moth"
"Descending Figures"

Daniel Tobin's Website.

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