| Intro | American writer |
| Is |
Writer Playwright Poet |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature |
| Gender | male |
Robert Daseler (born 1945) is an American playwright, and poet.
He graduated from Pomona College in 1967. He was director of public affairs for Claremont McKenna College, and director of communication at the Office of the State Librarian.
His work has appeared in the Formalist, The London Magazine,
Awards
- 1998 Richard Wilbur Award
- Writers’ Digest runner-up
- “2008 Rhyming Poem Winner | WritersDigest.com”. writersdigest.com. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
- “2009 Rhyming Poem Winners | WritersDigest.com”. writersdigest.com. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
Works
- “First Site”, ART
- Shades of California: The Hidden Beauty of Ordinary Life 2001
- Levering Avenue: Poems University of Evansville Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-930982-51-5
- “Introduction”, Shades of California: the hidden beauty of ordinary life : California’s family album, Editor Kimi Kodani Hill, Heyday Books, 2001, ISBN 978-1-890771-44-7
Plays
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Alekhine’s Defense, South Coast Repertory (world premiere) 1990
- Plays from South Coast Repertory, Volume 1, Broadway Play Publishing, 1993, ISBN 978-0-88145-111-5
- Dragon lady : a play in two acts. 1989
- “Faculty | Department of Drama | Claire Trevor School of the Arts”. drama.arts.uci.edu. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
- “Second wife (1930) R325248 (1963), Second wife, Dragon lady”. faqs.org. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
- Guernsey, O.L.; Sweet, J. (1989). The Best Plays of 1988-1989: The Complete Broadway and Off-Broadway Sourcebook. Hal Leonard. p. 524. ISBN 9781557830562. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
Reviews
Centered around the death of his wife, Michelle, these sonnets by Robert Daseler ’67 are an expansive meditation on grief, loneliness, and the ambivalent push-pull of engagement with a world that lacks the very presence that once defined it.