D. Nurske is the author of eight books of poetry, including Voices Over Water, The Fall (Knopf) and, most recently, Burnt Island (Knopf) is forthcoming in 2008. He has received in Whiting Writers' Award, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Tanne Foundation Award.

All the poems by D Nurkse that have appeared on Verse Daily:
July 15, 2007:   "Trial Marriage" " Strangers treat each other..."
May 20, 2005:  "Pas De L'Incise" ""We came down from the little mountains..."

Books by D Nurkse: Burnt Island, The Fall, Shadow Wars, Leaving Xaia, The Rules of Paradise, Voices Over Water

Other poems on the web by D Nurkse:
"Four poems"
Two poems
Four poems
Three poems
Two poems
Seven poems
"My Father's Closet"
"A Stoop in South Brooklyn"
"A Child in Brooklyn"

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