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Books by John Daniel
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Winner of a 2006 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award
"Rogue River Journal touches, more than a little, the fountains of glory in wild lands skirting the Rogue River. It touches another kind of glory also, and with equal elegance—the past, the relationship between a son and a father, as John Daniel recalls, with honesty, flamboyance, tenderness and true regard for his father's life, his own journey toward manhood. It is an extraordinary book."
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Milkweed Editions, 2002
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Winter Creek
One Writer's Natural History
"John Daniel's voice is perfectly modulated, his judgments restrained, his sense of self dead level. This approach, together with Daniel's lyrical sensibility, makes this contour map of one writer's evolution wonderfully engaging."
—Barry Lopez
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Oregon Rivers
With photographer Larry N. Olson
"I see from this book that Oregonians have been doing a good job of protecting wild rivers. You're rich with rivers. Some of them I know, and these photographs have shown me many others—many portraits of water's wildness and a fine variety of landscape sculpture, Northwest-style."
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Westcliffe, 1997
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Counterpoint, 1996
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"In his extraordinary exploration of memory and loss, John Daniel has found exact and lyrical words for what is almost impossible to put into words. He looks inward and outward with unfailing clarity, unfailing attention. This is a relentlessly heartbreaking and beautiful book."
—Jane Hirshfield
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The Trail Home
Nature, Imagination, and the American West
"This collection of essays, as richly numinous as a Hopi song-story, illuminates John Daniel's singular ability to wed poetic instinct with high reportorial skill and enlarge not only our understanding of the land itself but of the fragile human place within it."
—T. H. Watkins, Wilderness Magazine
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Pantheon Books, 1994
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Poetry Collections
Wild Song: Poems of the Natural World
"Readers respond to grace and power of language, the emotional resonance it evokes," Daniel writes in his preface to Wild Song. "Poetry, with its rhythmic intensities, its rich directions and indirections of meaning, can ignite small explosions of clarity."
In Wild Song, readers will find more than a few such "small explosions," some of which will feel like subtle aftershocks, some of which will leave them breathless.
—Susan Hanson, San Marcos Daily Record
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University of Georgia Press, 1998
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Salmon Run Press, 1994
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All Things Touched by Wind
"Eloquent and warm meditations on the natural world, by a poet who knows and loves the American West. Daniel's careful eye continuously discovers the particularities of the elements which surround and sustain the human beast."
—Naomi Shihab Nye
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Common Ground
"All our wildness may be disappearing, but for poems like these."
—David Laing, Fireweed
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Confluence Press, 1988
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