Poetry. This is the first book-length collection of poetry from Philadelphia poet Dan Featherston. "INTO THE EARTH takes us down, with Orpheus, into weight, gravity, and the depth of dreams, into longing, into seemingly simple objects, and into an inescapable and instructive melancholy"-Hank Lazer. "Spare and rich, there's an uncanny precision to Dan Featherston's work that blends the crystalline relations of geometry with the endless curves of myth...He's going for basics-the word, the hand, the self-and for the deep emotion that drives them, and because he will not stop short of a true, pure ring, he finds it. This is a thrilling and immensely affirming book"-Cole Swensen. Featherston is the author of UNITED STATES and several chapbooks including THE CLOCK MAKER'S MEMOIR. He was the editor of the journal ABACUS from 2001 to 2003.

Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA

Dan Featherston (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is a scholar of modern and contemporary American literature and a poet whose books include THE RADIANT WORLD (BlazeVox, 2009), THE CLOCK MAKER'S MEMOIR (Cuneiform Press, 2007), UNITED STATES (Factory School, 2005), and INTO THE EARTH (Quarry Press, 2005). Featherston's scholarly writing appears in a number of publications, including Modernism/Modernity, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Charles Olson: A Poet's Prose, The World in Time & Space: Towards a History of Innovative Poetry in Our Time, and Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. He also served as assistant editor (2003-2004) of the Arizona Quarterly and editor (2001-2003) of A.BACUS, a journal of experimental poetry and translation. Featherston has taught courses in literature, creative writing, and composition at several universities. He has also guest lectured and given talks and readings throughout the United States. Featherston is currently a visiting assistant professor in the First-Year Writing Program at Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia with Rachel McCrystal and their companion animals Fredo, Mazzy, and Itze.