The Shower Scene From Hamlet
Daniel Lusk
In The Shower Scene from Hamlet poet Daniel Lusk is at his mature best, creating portraits and literary collages from the lives of artists, eccentrics, and famous public figures that ricochet across a millennium of the world's art and cultural history. The poet blends extraordinary facts and rumors about personalities long dead with intimate glimpses of his own peripatetic past for the enjoyment of readers.
Daniel Lusk
In The Shower Scene from Hamlet poet Daniel Lusk is at his mature best, creating portraits and literary collages from the lives of artists, eccentrics, and famous public figures that ricochet across a millennium of the world's art and cultural history. The poet blends extraordinary facts and rumors about personalities long dead with intimate glimpses of his own peripatetic past for the enjoyment of readers.
Daniel Lusk
In The Shower Scene from Hamlet poet Daniel Lusk is at his mature best, creating portraits and literary collages from the lives of artists, eccentrics, and famous public figures that ricochet across a millennium of the world's art and cultural history. The poet blends extraordinary facts and rumors about personalities long dead with intimate glimpses of his own peripatetic past for the enjoyment of readers.
About the Author:
Daniel Lusk is an award-winning poet and author of five previous poetry collections. In 2016 his genre-bending essay "Bomb" was awarded a Pushcart Prize. He is also recipient of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (Nimrod International Journal), a Gertrude Claytor Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America), and other honors.
A former commentator on books for NPR and well-known for his teaching, he has been a Visiting Poet at the Frost Place in Franconia, N.H., Stranmillis University College-Queens, Belfast, N.I., and Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA. As a Poet-in-the-Schools, he taught children and teachers in more than 100 schools in the U.S. He has been a Resident Fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony and his poetry has been published widely in literary journals and anthologies, among them Poetry, New Letters, Poetry Ireland, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, The Chariton Review, North American Review, Markings (Scotland), Nimrod International Journal, and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Billy Collins, Ed.).
An Iowa native, he is a Senior Lecturer of English Emeritus at the University of Vermont.