Danielle Vogel is a poet, lyric essayist, and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of ecology, somatics, and ceremony.

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Her poetry collections include The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity (Red Hen 2020), Edges & Fray (Wesleyan 2020), and Between Grammars (Noemi 2015).

Her work also appears in anthologies including, The Book: 101 Definitions, edited by Amaranth Borsuk (Anteism 2021), A Forest on Many Stems (Nightboat 2021), edited by Laynie Brown, and Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene (Wesleyan 2018), edited by Linda Russo and Marthe Reed.

     a book , of string and filament   --   /  

                  a vibrational object upon contact

- from Edges & Fray, 2020

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Danielle Vogel writes toward a more organic grammar. Always asking how can a book, as an extended field of a body, serve as a site of radical transformation, how can the fragment, the letter, the lyric essay serve as non-linear conduits for transmuting the body and its consciousness?

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Her creative research practice, which includes the study of animal architectures, land restoration, the science of biophotons and epigenetics, and also encompasses aspects of her art-making, such as collaborating with wild clay, plants, waters and pigments, reflects her ongoing commitment toward interspecies healing, bioregional literacy (learning from the languages of elements and ecosystems), reintegrating a reader with their environments, and allowing this ongoing and developing practice to directly inform and reshape her poetics across projects and books.

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Vogel's current projects are particularly concerned with ecopoetics. They seek to weave experimental prose forms with ecological literacy, reparative poem-gardens, geomancy, and site-responsive poems, and are tentatively titled The Earth Archives and The Frequency of Flowers.

Because "a body loosens itself across an alphabet," because "an absent word unsettl[es] the collarbone’s concavity," because "the vowels layering, breathe," Danielle Vogel’s ravishing and profound work resides in one as a thrilling visceral experience. Never has a reading encounter felt so fully embodied—the vibration and motions and shapes of language inside, transforming the day, long after the book is closed.

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- Carole Maso, author Ghost Dance