Daniel Tobin is the author of eight books of poems: Where the World is Made, Double Life, The Narrows, Second Things, Belated Heavens (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, 2011) The Net, the book-length poem, From Nothing, and Blood Labors (Fall 2018), along with the critical studies and Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Awake in America: On Irish American Poetry, and On Serious Earth (forthcoming 2019). He is the editor of The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Light in Hand: The Selected Early Poems and Lola Ridge, Poet's Work, Poet's Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art, and The Collected Early Poems of Lola Ridge. Among his awards are the 'The Discovery/The Nation Award,' The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, and creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Other poems by Daniel Tobin in Verse Daily:
July 17, 2016:   "(Cove)" "Sometimes it's no different than the sound of the surf..."
November 23, 2004:  "To Acedia" "Razor of nothingness, ash..."

Books by Daniel Tobin:

Other poems on the web by Daniel Tobin:
Three poems
Four poems
Two poems
"The Country"
"Corpse Flower, Luna Moth"
"Marduk"
"A Song of the Cosmos"
Two poems
"The Addict"
"The Clock"

Daniel Tobin's Website.

Daniel Tobin According to Wikipedia.

About The Stone in the Air:

"The great Holocaust poet Paul Celan, whose mother and father died in an internment camp, and who himself was imprisoned in a work camp, has written some of the most memorable and mournful poems about death and loss. In these lucid and lyrical translations of Celan's poetry by Daniel Tobin, we are reminded that for Celan, 'Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language.' This lyrical collection places Celan's poetry in an interpretive musical arrangement that reverberates with notes of metaphysical longing amidst the speaker's despair. It is both compelling and haunting, a testimony to the enduring power of language and poetry to confront the unspeakable."
—Steven Schneider

"As time sweeps inexorably forward from events that occurred in mid-twentieth century Europe that framed Paul Celan's life and formed his literary vision, new voices of intolerance are raised that target minorities and the vulnerable to remind us, chillingly, of the Holocaust. Born into a Jewish family in Romania, Celan lived through the horrors of the period leaving us a poetry of witness: sparse, imagistic, hermetic, luminous. Daniel Tobin's new versions of Celan's poems, while building on the work of others, offer us new and nuanced approaches to the poetry underlined by a finely-tuned sense of tone, diction, syntax, and line. Tobin, as a poet and scholar who has always engaged with issues of faith, doubt, witness, and the presence of the past in the present, is an ideal interpreter of Celan's vision—his solitary candle as it burns in defiance of power. In Tobin's able and reverent hands, Celan's work is given a new charge for our own times. The Stone in the Air is moving, splendid, and a gifted work of translation."
—Eamonn Wall