DB Jonas

Poet

Chimayo, NM
New Mexico US

Author's Bio

Born in California, DB Jonas studied literature, music and continental philosophy in his youth. Following some Wanderjahre in France, Spain, North Africa and Italy after High School, he studied at the University of California and The University of Padova, and earned advanced degrees from Yale and Princeton Universities.  After a career in business and the sciences, he retired to his orchards in the mountains of New Mexico where he tends to his fruit trees and poetry amid the manifest inspirations of the Mountain Southwest.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Flight Risk, Poems and Translations (Kelsay Books, 2025)
,
Tarantula Season and Other Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2023)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Marcel Proust Franz Kafka Emmanuel Levinas Rainer Maria Rilke Emily Dickinson Paul Celan Herman Melville Gerard Manley Hopkins Elizabeth Bishop Geoffrey Chaucer
What I'm reading now: 
JMW Turner by Franny Moyle, Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules by Douglas Dreishpoon, Fureur et mystere by Rene Char, Bear Lexicon by Eric Fisher Stone, Nietzsche et la philosophie by Gilles Deleuze

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Fluent in: 
English, French, Italian, Spanish
Born in: 
Los Angeles, CA
California
Raised in: 
Tokyo
Japan
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Last update: May 03, 2025