Dane Hamann

    • Publications

      Book

      A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun

      Available at Kelsay Books, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon

      “Inside us there are deep, unclaimed spaces...” Poet Dane Hamann writes this as he claims spaces with great precision in this book, a book about landscapes, endless, focused movement, and the meaning and value of a human body. A book of introspection, here is the puzzle of the body both safe and endangered, the body’s connection to land, to seasons, to a ‘you’ never defined. These poems are full of extraordinary awareness of the body in space and time, the poet reaches for metaphors tied to machinery and the natural world, and the poet always has his eye on any door or doorway, window or path that might free the narrator, let him find where he must go next. These poems are vivid, intense, and obsessive. I am very glad to have this book in our world.
       
      Deborah Keenan, author of eleven collections of poems and a book of writing ideas, from tiger to prayer.
       
       
      Dane Hamann’s A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun is a remarkable debut first collection. In it you will not find any of the gimmicky solipsism or callow irony that pervades too much of contemporary American poetry. Instead, Hamann’s poems are open and expansive explorations of the suffering body’s negotiations with the will and the road and the world. Both honest and elemental, one need not be a runner to know that Hamann’s gift with poetic image is wonderfully right. To read these poems is to be inspired by a new poetic voice that is natural, real, and essential as your next breath.
       
      Eliot Khalil Wilson, author of This Island of Dogs
       
       
      Dane Hamann skillfully captures the transcendence of moving under one’s own power and our biological need to connect with nature. A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun takes readers on an immersive journey down remote gravel roads, around serene lakes, and through mountainous terrain that won’t soon be forgotten.
       
      Mackenzie Havey, author of Mindful Running

      Chapbooks

      Sutra Press – Q & A

       

      Ghost City Press – What the River Made (2018); Impossible Volumes (2020); O MAD EVERYTHING (2021)

       

      Rinky Dink Press (Series Three) – The Cold Coast

      Journals (Online Work)

       

      Parentheses Journal – The Softest Things

       

      Harpur Palate – Scrap

       

      The Night Heron Barks – Thresholds

       

      Willows Wept Review – Snapped Collarbone; On the Shore of the Lake, I Stare into the Midnight Sky

       

      Riggwelter – Ice Bright in the Harbor

       

      Figure 1 – Highway

       

      Porridge Magazine – Spring; Rust

       

      Recenter Press Journal – Fields

       

      Ghost City Review – Thoughts

       

      Kissing Dynamite – Ennui

       

      Barren Magazine – Hammer Sonnet

       

      L'éphémère Review – August Sonnet

       

      Nice Cage – Two poems

       

      Two Peach – Who will play the song of catastrophe

       

      Switchback Journal – From how small a split will we supernova; We bathe in miles of dust

       

      COUNTERCLOCK Journal – Pinhole Sunrise

       

      Wildness – [Q & A] (Will the nearly broken world)

       

      Jet Fuel Review Issue 10 – Q & A poems

       

      Lines + Stars – Fifty-Two Card Pickup

       

      Cobalt Review – Light Splashing So Deliberately

       

      Anthology of Chicago – The Cloisters

       

      Floodwall Magazine – Blood Orange

       

      Stymie – At the Pole Vault Pits

       

      Jet Fuel Review Issue 4 – Moonlight by Edvard Munch; Q & A

       

      2012 Illinois Emerging Writers Competition—Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, 2nd Place

      Daniel Hudson Burnham

    • Reviews

      Black-Eyed Heifer by Shelly Taylor

      (TriQuarterly)

      "Shelly Taylor’s debut effort, Black-Eyed Heifer, is a mosaic of form and language . . . It is a riptide pulling its readers out into the deep, powerful currents of nostalgia."

      Water Puppets by Quan Barry

      (TriQuarterly)

      "There is a journalistic objectivity to Quan Barry’s new collection of poems, Water Puppets . . . There can be no denial: the winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry is a demanding, worthwhile read."

      Post- by Wayne Miller

      (Adroit Journal)

      "Post- is much like a reservoir . . . Volumes of Miller’s precise and resonant language flood every space within this book, creating a world of both gritty intensity and thoughtful poise. As a collection, Post- carries significant momentum. . ."

      Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo

      (Whale Road Review)

      "Wonderfully strange and achingly poignant, Max Ritvo's debut collection of poetry, Four Reincarnations, is vibrant with small worlds."

    • Interviews

      Interview with Nikky Finney

      by Aaron Delee, Dan Fliegel, Dane Hamann, Anthony Opal, and C. Russell Price

      Interview with Brian Barker

      by Aaron Delee, Dan Fliegel, Dane Hamann, Anthony Opal, and C. Russell Price

      Interview with Dean Rader

      by Aaron Delee, Sarah Jenkins, C. Russell Price, Lana Rakhman, Christine Pacyk, Anthony Opal, Danielle Burhop, and Dane Hamann

      Interview with Beth Bachmann

      by Danielle Burhop, Aaron Delee, Dane Hamann, Sarah Jenkins, Anthony Opal, Christine Pacyk, C. Russell Price, and Lana Rakhman

    • Selected Art

      Painting — Drawing — Mixed Media

      Kiln Ruins, Winter
      Breath [detail]
      Soundmountain [detail]
      Spillway [detail]
      A Flood of Birdsong [detail]
      Broken Stone [detail]
      The River Unraveling [detail]
      CCC Waterfall
      Bluff Road
      Chicagoland
      15th Hour
      The Ver
      The Road Back Home
      [Untitled]
      Orangescape
      Greenscape
      Grayscape
      Bluescape
      Field V
      Field II
      Field I

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    • About

      Dane Hamann holds a BA in Studio Art and English from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, MN and an MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. His poem "Daniel Hudson Burnham" received 2nd Place for the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award in the 2012 Illinois Emerging Writers Competition. He's a staff member of TriQuarterly, the literary magazine of Northwestern University.

       

      Dane works as a copy editor and indexer for American Technical Publishers, a textbook and digital media publisher in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. Previously, he interned at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Milkweed Editions, a literary publisher.

       

      Twitter: @donnyhamms

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