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Book SynopsisGiving an extended meditation on how death affects those left behind, this work is a understated, beautifully rendered elegy for the poet's partner. Using styles ranging from free verse to sonnets, Sapphics, and rhymed haikus, it presents literary and historical figures - in poems set in China, the Middle East, Death Valley, and Italy.
Trade Review"Daniel Hall's work reminds us that a poet's sharp-sightedness, the whole business of 'getting things right,' is a matter of far more than accuracy. It's a matter of - inescapably - thanksgiving." - Brad Leithauser, New York Review of Books "Under Sleep revolves around a shimmering series of oppositions: galaxy and gull, promise and loss, the fixed stars and the fugitive desires. To each Daniel Hall brings his sympathy and skepticism; from each he distills a heady elixir. This is poetry of the highest order: febrile, delicate, and immensely moving." - J. D. McClatchy"
