Daniel Mark Epstein is a poet and biographer who has published more than twenty books of poetry and nonfiction. His “Sonnets For a Cruel April,” provides the text for a short dramatic film with Tyne Daly, Jennifer Van Dyck, and other actors that will be available as a webcast and on Youtube in June 2020
Poetry
Winter 2009
The Sense of Style
And in this frame great-grandmother looks lovely In her high-collared satin dress,So many buttons! A button for every sin, as They used to say, and the stoneCameo brooch that has come down […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
The Cataract
Lately the world seems darker, Especially in the evenings, And I light more lamps To see no better than ever Familiar faces and things: Wayworn works of art, Books […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
Magic for Houdini
After the feast in his honor, the magician Checked his watch, blinked, palmed a yawn, As amateurs turned water into wine, or wine Into water, and beamed at his applause. […]
Poetry
Spring 1987
Raphael
I The gallery light left something to be desired.Electric ghosts in clouds and streakstold their moral on the bulletproof glass:the soul will make a mirror of any window.I shifted. It […]
Poetry
Autumn 1979
Ode to Virgil
1 Astral mechanic! Forecaster of empires! Vergilius! The children of Europe are gathering under your stars. They throng the dialectical Squares and Roundabouts. They are marching through medieval walls and […]
Poetry
Autumn/ September 1967
The Theft
Not long after you were born, he left Talking nothing with him. I found No sign or certainty, no clue That he was gone. This gratuitous theft Became the theme […]