DANIELLE
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ROSE
About
Danielle Rose lives in Massachusetts. She is the author of at first & then from Black Lawrence Press & The History of Mountains from Variant Lit. Her work can be found in publications such as Hobart, Palette, & Sundog Lit.
Selected Publications
Accolades
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at first & then —Black Lawrence Press BLACK RIVER CHAPBOOK COMPETITION FALL '19, winner
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"this is a trans poem about swans" —Pidgeonholes THE BODY, runner-up, PUSHCART nomination, BEST OF THE NET nomination
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"matutinal/vespertine" w/Bailey Grey —Sundog Lit 2019 SUMMER COLLABORATION CONTEST, finalist
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"On the Creation of New Language From the Reading Lists of the Dead" —Kissing Dynamite, PUSHCART nomination
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"Body Maps" —Random Sample Review, PUSHCART nomination
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"Aubade But a Monologue on Beauty" —Random Sample Review, PUSHCART nomination
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Recent Work
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"For the Bull Rider Walking Off a Broken Leg" —Jet Fuel Review
"Ghost Hunters is Therapy for People Who Enjoy the Concept of Possibility" —Hobart After Dark
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"Epistle on Sand" —Whale Road Review
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"A Guide to Touching Snow" —Crack the Spine
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"Aubade as Peg Bundy" —Hobart After Dark
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"Sabina Presents Nero With a Gift" —Hobart After Dark
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"Alcestis (2nd draft)" —Autofocus
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"Calypso Just Wanted a Man Around the Island" —Hobart After Dark
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"Oort Poetica" & "Aubade but an Imperfect Recollection of Un Chien Andalou" —Hobart
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"In It" —Palette Poetry
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"Leda / Swan (Triptych)" —MORIA
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"Tilling" —Pithead Chapel
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"tell me i’m prettier when i smile" —Okay Donkey
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"pretty in soft light" —Glass Poetry
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"ekphrasis on 'the most beautiful suicide'" —The Shallow Ends
"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Lunching Alone, 1987" —Not Very Quiet
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Interviews & Other Media
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"On at first & then w/Athena Dixon" —New Books Network
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"THR Interview Series: Danielle Rose" —The Headlight Review
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Books
THE HISTORY
OF MOUNTAINS
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June 2021
Variant Lit
35 pp
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The History of Mountains is a story of great heights and how to fall from them. Through sharp and evocative language, Danielle Rose takes the reader on a series of distant journeys while remaining always on-the-cusp of new beginnings. Asking "Why do men do these extraordinarily dangerous things that they do?" And being left with no clear answer. This is a book that compels meandering, that aimlessness in the moment before chaos. But beware: If you miss the signs, the avalanche will bury you, too.
In The History of Mountains, Danielle Rose takes us to the peak of humanity, nods at the familiar 30,000 foot drop, and gently asks, “What are you so afraid of?"
—Lannie Stabile, author of Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dogs Zeus
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AT FIRST
& THEN
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February 2021
Black Lawrence Press
32 pp
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at first & then is radical, beautiful, propulsive. An Orphic tale of a body descending then rising again, the debut chapbook from poet Danielle Rose charts woven stories of addiction, grief, trauma, and, ultimately, gender—the essential pieces of personhood. Through struggle and loss, the poems in at first & then proceed like timid ghosts learning how to form language, gathering the disparate elements of selfhood into a warm coherency, a radical self-permission.
Rose writes the language of longing with a fierce acuity, but this is also a collection about fulfillment. “In both there is dancing,” Rose’s speaker says of the motion of the tides and of welcoming the divine. These are poems brimming with motion, with hunger, and with aching, full-bodied joy. “This must be how / we can bear to be so empty / so we can be so full.”
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