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Whether he is tackling a large-scale subject, like Bosch or St. Bartolomé de los Casas (the saint known as the “Protector of the Indians”), or penning a lyric, Tobin knows how to mix gravity with levity, the downward pressure of sin and suffering with the unbearable lightness of grace. One minute he's quoting Simone Weil, the next he's uttering a “Brief Elegy for a Subdivision.”

Daniel Tobin's poems have appeared in The Nation, The Times Literary Supplement, Stand, Poetry,The American Scholar, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, DoubleTake, Poetry Ireland Review, and many other journals. Among his awards are "The Discovery/ The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, The Greensboro Review Prize, a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Robert Frost Fellowship. His first book of poems, Where the World is Made, was co-winner of the 1998 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize. A second book of poems, Double Life, published by Louisiana State University Press (2004), has been nominated for the Kingsley Tufts Award, the National Book Award, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and the Pulitzer Prize. His work has been anthologized in Hammer and Blaze, The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, and elsewhere. He has also published numerous essays on modern and contemporary poetry both in the United States and abroad. He is presently Chair of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston.

Bibliography

• Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (University Press of Kentucky, 1999) nonfiction
• Where The World Is Made (Middlebury, 1999) poetry
  
• Double Life: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2004) poetry
• The Narrows (Four Way Books, 2005) poetry
• The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), poetry anthology
• Light In Hand: The Selected Poems of Lola Ridge (Quale Press, 2007) poetry anthology
  
• Poet's Work, Poet's Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art (University of Michigan Press, 2008) nonfiction
• Second Things (Four Way Books, 2008) poetry