Dale Jacobson publishes new book Dale Jacobson, senior lecturer in the Department of English, has published his eighth book of poetry, "Metamorphoses of the Sleeping Beast," from Red Dragonfly Press. Comprised of 64 poems written over many years, it is praised by the nationally recognized poet John Balaban (a participant of UND's Writers Conference), who remarks: "If there is a politics in his poetry as there is in McGrath's, it is as spiritually suffused with nature as William Blake's, as imagistic and allusively argued as Neruda's, and as Amerian as a coyote on a hilltop outside town waking us up with his lyrical, plaintive song." -- English.