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Daniel Lassell

@dlassell.bsky.social

Author of Frame Inside a Frame (TRP, 2025) | Spit (Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, 2021) | Ad Spot (Ethel Zine, 2021) | The Emptying Earth (Madhouse Press, 2023) | from Kentucky | he/him

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Susan L. Leary@susanlleary.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Super excited to have a review of Daniel Lassell’s FRAME INSIDE A FRAME (Texas Review Press) in the new issue of Diode! A beautiful book full of so much wisdom, friends! @dlassell.bsky.social @diodeeditions.bsky.social diodepoetry.com/leary_susan-...

Infinite Perceptions, Inclusive Poetics

A Review of Daniel Lassell’s Frame Inside a Frame (Texas Review Press, September 2025) by Susan L. Leary The title of Daniel Lassell’s newest collection, Frame Inside a Frame, captures the primary the...

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Daniel Lassell@dlassell.bsky.social · last yr.

[In the weeks and months leading up to my book’s publication, I want to elevate the people who graciously blurbed my book.] David Shumate’s prose poetry is not a box that a lyric poem has been placed into, but a conveyer for boundless stretching, welcoming readers into it. [...]

Daniel Lassell@dlassell.bsky.social · last yr.

[In the weeks and months leading up to my book’s publication, I want to elevate the people who graciously blurbed my book.] I first read Frank Paino’s work when I received his book, Obscura, as a gift for Valentine’s Day. The visceral imagery, [...]

Daniel Lassell@dlassell.bsky.social · last yr.

[In the weeks and months leading up to my book’s publication, I want to elevate the people who graciously blurbed my book.] When I first read Geffrey Davis's book, Revising the Storm, I was overcome with the poems’ power. [...]

Daniel Lassell@dlassell.bsky.social · last yr.

[In leading up to my book’s publication, I want to elevate the people who graciously blurbed my book.] When I first read Ama Codjoe’s Bluest Nude, I was knocked flat. Here was a poet whose first book read like their tenth. […]

Daniel Lassell@dlassell.bsky.social · last yr.

[Leading up to my book’s publication, I want to elevate the people who graciously blurbed my book] Part of good poetry creation is an obsessive observance of everyday life. And then there is the observance of human emotions, [...]

“Daniel Lassell’s electrifying second collection sits us in the middle of nature and asks us to imagine how fragile life and its creation can be. No matter how hard we try to protect our children or ourselves, it ‘Doesn’t matter. In the end, the hardened object is a fragile object—like the body, the earth.’ Lassell works to build formal frames within these poems, borders not only to protect his loves but to understand them and himself. We are guided through snapshots of childhood and divinity, mercy and marriage, of a ‘small dog / yapping / yapping / into hoisted sky’ and how we take for granted what can be so easily taken from us.” —jason b. crawford, author of YEET! and Year of the Unicorn Kidz