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Dan Chiasson

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Dan Chiasson

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1971-05-09 （Burlington, Vermont, United States）
国籍
United States
言語
English
宗教
Roman Catholic
居住地歴
Burlington, Vermont, United States (birth and childhood) → Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States (residence) → Paris, France (NYU Paris program)

経歴

職業
poet, critic, journalist, Professor of English
活動期間
1993年〜
所属
Wellesley College, Department of English (Chair), Boston University MFA program (affiliate), NYU Paris program (affiliate/teacher), Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (Middlebury College), The Paris Review (poetry editor; later advisory editor), The Common (editorial board member)
影響を受けた人物
Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, A. R. Ammons

学歴

Rice Memorial High School
High School
期間: 1985–1989
卒業年: 1989
国: United States
Amherst College
Liberal Arts / Classics and English
学位: 文学士（summa cum laude）
期間: 1989–1993
卒業年: 1993
国: United States
Graduated summa cum laude
Harvard University
Graduate School / English
学位: Ph.D.
国: United States
Ph.D. in English; exact year unknown.

受賞歴

Whiting Award
2004
主催: The Whiting Foundation
結果: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
2008
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: 受賞（フェロー）
Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2008
主催: American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果: 受賞
James Merrill House Fellowship
2017
主催: James Merrill House
結果: フェロー

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Afterlife of Objects

2002年 Poetry collection

A poetry collection exploring memory and personal history through everyday objects.

memorymaterialitypersonal historyeveryday life

Natural History

2005年 Poetry collection

A poetry collection that contemplates the relationship between humans and the world through themes of natural history and observation.

natureobservationhistorymemory
翻訳
  • German edition 'Naturgeschichte' (Luxbooks)

One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America

2007年 Criticism / Nonfiction

A collection of critical essays examining the relationship between poems and persons in contemporary American poetry.

poeticspoet biographycontemporary poetry

Where's the Moon, There's the Moon

2010年 Poetry collection

A poetry collection that pursues a balance of form and narrative while evoking personal memory and landscape.

memorylandscapeform

Bicentennial

2014年 Poetry collection

A poetry collection dealing with themes that intersect personal and national memory.

historynationpersonal history

The Math Campers

2020年 Poetry collection

A recent collection that mixes humor and wit while depicting personal experience and observation.

humorpersonal experienceobservation

Bernie for Burlington (forthcoming)

2026年 Nonfiction / Memoir

A memoiristic nonfiction account of Bernie Sanders's political rise in Burlington, scheduled for publication in 2026.

political historymemoirlocal politics

全著作

  • The Afterlife of Objects (2002)
  • Natural History (2005)
  • One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America (2007)
  • Where's the Moon, There's the Moon (2010)
  • Bicentennial (2014)
  • The Math Campers (2020)
  • Bernie for Burlington (forthcoming 2026)

作品の翻訳

  • Natural History → German edition 'Naturgeschichte' (Luxbooks)
  • Some poems translated into German by Jan Wagner and others

作風・主題

文体
meticulous observational dictionsensitivity to form (experimentation alongside traditional forms)critical and intellectual voice
頻出モチーフ
everyday objectsmemory and historydepictions of naturepersonal reminiscence

評価・遺産

Dan Chiasson is a prominent poet-critic in contemporary American poetry, influential both in academia and in general-interest literary venues (The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books). As an educator at Wellesley College and through translations and international publications, he has received wide recognition.

関連学会

  • American Academy of Arts and Letters (awardee)

引用

  • I'm actually one of the outcomes of the experiment, and so is my book, looking back on the transformation of Burlington and the thrilling rise of Bernie and his ideas.
    出典: Wikipedia (quotation from book description/announcement)
  • The Sewanee Review called Chiasson 'the country's most visible poet-critic.'
    出典: The Sewanee Review (review/notice)

豆知識

  • Grew up as an only child in Burlington, Vermont.
  • Attended Catholic schools (Mater Christi, Rice Memorial High School).
  • Longtime contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books.
  • Poems have been translated into multiple languages, including German.