Daniel Orsini is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, where he earned three degrees in English Literature (A.B., A.M., and Ph.D.). He taught for many years at Rhode Island College as an Associate Professor of English. He is the author of Galactic Pilgrim and On the Care and Feeding of Robots. His poems, which examine the spiritual as well as the psychological effects of being a Christian, offer an amalgam of diverse yet related influences that include John Donne; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Emily Dickinson. Another significant source of Daniel’s poems derives from the sonnet sequences of Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare.
University scholars and authors have praised Daniel’s work. Alfred Turco, the author of Shaw’s Moral Vision: The Self and Salvation, finds Daniel’s poetry “meticulously crafted, densely argued, and thematically rich.” Daniel’s books are “nothing less than prophecies of redemptive consciousness for humankind in the twenty-first century.” Gary Grund, the author of Humanist Tragedies, compares Daniel’s poems to “a collection of strands woven into a distinctive pattern that speaks to the twenty-first century.” Winfried Schleiner, the author of The Imagery of John Donne’s Sermons, also admires Daniel’s poetry: “Almost every poem plays on powerful symbols of the past.”
Daniel’s current book is A User’s Guide to Spacetime.