A year after The New Yorker named him a “Debut Poet” in 2001, Dan Chiasson published his first book, The Afterlife of Objects. A second collection, Natural History, followed in 2005; One Kind of Everything, a critical work on American poetry and autobiography (an expansion of his Harvard dissertation), was published in 2007; and last fall he succeeded Charles Simic as a poetry editor at The Paris Review.
