{"title":"Danielle Chapman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"holler-a-poet-among-patriots","title":"Holler: A Poet Among Patriots","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tour de force of prose style, \u003cem\u003eHoller\u003c\/em\u003e is poet Danielle Chapman's moving and provocative portrait of her Southern, military childhood — and an unflinching reckoning with what such an inheritance means now. A crucial book for anyone with a racial conscience in today's divided America, Holler is one woman's account of \"the miraculous catastrophe\" of being human in an inhumane world, and proof that it's possible to fully face who we are while searching for forgiveness.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoller\u003c\/em\u003e begins with Chapman's father's death, in a scuba diving accident in Okinawa, which she witnessed at age three. Brought back to the States by her father's father, the former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, Chapman soon finds herself in the family's ancestral farmhouse in Tennessee — a tavern built in 1790 and later an antebellum farm. There, Chapman encounters the pungent atmospheres of her Confederate forebears, and a living cast of Southern eccentrics and WWII warhorses, forcing her to confront America's racism and its wars. She enters her Gen X adolescence on fire with liberal outrage, but bewildered by \"what to do about it.\" It's only as an adult, returning to her memories after decades working as a poet and a professor, that Chapman is able to tell the stories that made her childhood — turning up the depth of their sins, their sufferings, their humor, and their grace.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapman's second collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eBoxed Juice\u003c\/em\u003e, is forthcoming from Unbound Edition Press in 2024.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanielle Chapman\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two collections of poems, \u003cem\u003eDelinquent Palaces\u003c\/em\u003e (Northwestern University Press, 2015) and \u003cem\u003eBoxed Juice\u003c\/em\u003e, which will be released from Unbound Edition Press in Spring 2024. She teaches Shakespeare and creative writing at Yale University and lives in Hamden, CT, with her husband, Christian Wiman, and their daughters, Eliza and Fiona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapman begins this dramatic, frank, witty, and intellectually lush family memoir by citing the perils implicit in chronicling her upbringing in a Southern military household. -\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBooklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHoller\u003c\/em\u003e traces out the strands of self, place and history that bind us to any past we claim or disclaim, that live on in our pride and regret, our nerves and our senses.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMarilynne Robinson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Danielle Chapman's \u003cem\u003eHoller\u003c\/em\u003e is a magical and rare species of a book that decenters our conclusive judgments and over-moralizing to make room for the complexities of history and the truth of personal stories, hidden narratives, and family lore. I am moved by the grace this book seeks and the textured moments it evokes. The biggest tragedy, the book suggests, is that we are either claimed by beauty and evil, enmeshed in tales that calcify; or, like from the pen of Chapman, released into our greater consciousness to lend us opportunities for insight and redemption.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Major Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What is it to forgive and to be forgiven? Is history unforgivable? Danielle Chapman was born into a history of sorrow and guilt, a white, Southern, military family, her grandfather a Commandant of the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, her ancestors the owners and traders of enslaved people. With blazing lyric intensity, she recreates the infinitely complicated, sometimes savage, sometimes tender world in which she grew to consciousness. Chapman's story builds to a conclusion of mythic power and surprise made real in every phrase of her phosphorescent prose. An astonishment. A lesson in being human.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eRosanna Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Danielle Chapman's beautiful memoir looks at the American crisis from the inside: a poet and academic from the North reflects on her Southern family history. She investigates with vigor and honesty the story of one family – a story that is sometimes (often) as devastating as American history itself. Chapman's honesty, her unwillingness to look away, to hide from the past is endlessly compelling — as she considers her Southern ancestors unfussed by the evil in their world and in themselves, putting off repentance, or, rather, bequeathing it to me. And here I am, ashamed and yet alive. In a time when so many offer lip-service instead of actual reckoning, Chapman [is]… full of character, full of refusal to speak in platitudes, full of personality and heart, brimming with the kind of verbal music that makes emotion come alive for the reader almost viscerally (indeed, few can write a prose as musical and precise as Chapman's).\u003cem\u003e Holler\u003c\/em\u003e is stunning book.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eIlya Kaminsky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This memoir arises from Chapman's good nature though there is much to cry over. Chapman's temperament is even and kind. You feel it in the poetic nuances of her sentences, in her precision and wit, in the legacy of literature that enlarges her thoughts. It is a Southern story, American with a bitter and by-now familiar tint of blood and red apples. Chapman has reflected on the many shapes such a story takes, when told without prejudice, and the resulting work has great value.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eFanny Howe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHoller\u003c\/em\u003e is exquisite and moving, an excavation of personal history and national mythologies, and Danielle Chapman's complex and sensitive approach offers a brave and insightful path forward as we confront the past.\" - \u003cstrong\u003ePhilip Klay\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Danielle Chapman sees—and lets us see—both the beauty and the horror of her family legacy in this sad, haunting, and, above all, unblinking memoir.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAnne Fadiman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unbound Edition Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46627528966461,"sku":"9798987019955","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798987019955ita.jpg?v=1693512140"},{"product_id":"boxed-juice","title":"Boxed Juice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoxed Juice\u003c\/em\u003e is a rare and original work that makes clear why Danielle Chapman is so vital to contemporary poetry. Spontaneous and indelible, enchanting and disillusioned, extravagant and direct, these poems reveal what Chapman sees from within roles that our culture often renders invisible or ridiculous — mother, caregiver, Christian mystic, literary wife. From the taut, linguistically nimble stanzas of \"Unspeakable\" and \"Kumquat\" to the devastating and funny lyric essay at the book's center, Chapman invokes constraints even as she exuberantly shatters them. Yet, as acclaimed poet and critic Peter Campion notes in his foreword, \"for all its elegance, this remains a work pitched against despair, an act of survival.\" Chapman and her husband, Christian Wiman, had been married for only 10 months when, in 2005, he was diagnosed with a rare, incurable form of lymphoma, an event that ignited the couple's mutual thirst for God, and their quest for poems that could capture it. Chapman's work witnesses that harrowing story even as it maps a vision forward, stubbornly relishing the mischief and the joy, the ecstasy and absurdity — and, above all, the sound — of life, even when threatened by catastrophe. Following Delinquent Palaces (TriQuarterly, 2015), \u003cem\u003eBoxed Juice\u003c\/em\u003e distills Chapman's craft into a miracle of resilience. Danielle Chapman's poems are those of a spirit in whom the experience of being crushed is saved by the music that it yields.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanielle Chapman\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, nonfiction, writer, and lecturer in English at Yale University. Her memoir, \u003cem\u003eHoller: A Poet Among Patriots\u003c\/em\u003e, was released by Unbound Edition Press in 2023. Her previous collection of poems is \u003cem\u003eDelinquent Palaces\u003c\/em\u003e (Northwestern University Press, 2015). She teaches Shakespeare and creative writing and lives in Hamden, Connecticut with her husband, Christian Wiman, and their twin daughters, Fiona and Eliza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Boxed Juice is something rare, an original vision of being that…makes Danielle Chapman so important to poetry right now. [Her] poems are tenacious and surprising, wild and fated, there with us for the bad as well as the good. No matter where we may wish to be, they meet us in the world where we are.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Peter Campion,\u003c\/strong\u003e from the foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The poems [in Boxed Juice] are strikingly precise, their beautiful deployments of image and perception powerfully constrained, not unlike nectar whose attar and sensory reach are all the more intoxicating for their confinement… It is when Chapman brings… high-church lyric perceptions into juxtaposition with a keen eye and ear for the quotidian that the magic, paratactically, happens.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eLisa Russ Spaar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Everything is alive and fully charged in Chapman's poetry of ardor and loss, survival and renewal as she revels in the music of language — the fruitiness of vowels, the clash of consonants, the swoon of rhyme. Incisive, bemused, and impassioned, Chapman gives strong and lucid voice to the rapture of existence and the mysteries of consciousness.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDonna Seaman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Danielle Chapman's poetry is brilliant, mysterious, and impetuous in its quest for intensity. Like Gerard Manley Hopkins, she knows the secret to charging the world with grandeur, with words and their music; like his windhover, her words buckle in two senses: both secured and 'haltedin a breakbeat'.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAnge Mlinko\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unbound Edition Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49363260637501,"sku":"9798987019948","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798987019948ita.jpg?v=1726087193"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/danielle-chapman.oembed","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}