Background
Epstein, Daniel Mark was born on October 25, 1948 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Donald David and Louise Marietta (Tillman) Epstein.
(Kindred spirits despite their profound differences in pos...)
Kindred spirits despite their profound differences in position, Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman shared a vision of the democratic character. They had read or listened to each other’s words at crucial turning points in their lives, and both were utterly transformed by the tragedy of the Civil War. In this radiant book, poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein tracks the parallel lives of these two titans from the day that Lincoln first read Leaves of Grass to the elegy Whitman composed after Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. Drawing on a rich trove of personal and newspaper accounts and diary records, Epstein shows how the influence and reverence flowed between these two men–and brings to life the many friends and contacts they shared. Epstein has written a masterful portrait of two great American figures and the era they shaped through words and deeds.
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( These arresting and memorable poems are filled with lov...)
These arresting and memorable poems are filled with love and history. Not general love and history, for the author is a poet of the particular and he writes of quite individual loves and of episodes of quite local history. Several long poems of absorbing skill stand out in the book: "Requiem for Christine Latrobe," "Letter Concerning the Yellow Fever," and "The Assassins," an imagined address after the deed from John Wilkes Booth to one of his co-conspirators. A deep sense of place, namely of Baltimore, Tidewater Country, and Appalachian Maryland, informs the pages of this book. Yet through the art of his poetry, Epstein makes what begins as local history and personal feeling end as part of the reader's own country. It is finally the geography of the human mind and heart that is the design of this impressive work.
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Epstein, Daniel Mark was born on October 25, 1948 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Donald David and Louise Marietta (Tillman) Epstein.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude with highest honors in English, Kenyon College, 1970; postgraduate, University of Virginia, 1970-1971; Master of Fine Arts honorary, Norwich U.
Assistant manager, Automatic Enterprises, Washington, 1967-1970;
distinguished scholar-in-residence, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1982;
writer-in-residence, Towson State University, since 1983. Consultant literature division National Endowment for Arts, Washington, 1973. Lecturer United States Information Service tour German universities, 1977, tour, Africa, 1978.
Assistant professor Johns Hopkins University. Board directors Baltimore Theatre Project. Co-founder Baltimore Poet's Theatre.
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Fellow American Academy in Rome. Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Wendy Roberts, May 29, 1976 (divorced 1994). Children: Johanna Ruth, Benjamin Robert. Married Jennifer Bishop, 1994.
Children: Theodore John, Nathaniel David.