| The Endarkenment Contributor(s): McDaniel, Jeffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 082295995X ISBN-13: 9780822959953 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811 |
| Series: Pitt Poetry (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5.99" W x 8.74" (0.33 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Even if you count yourself among the unredeemed who claim they don't like poetry, buy this book anyway. It will convert you and install a skylight in your brain. Alive and kicking in these pages is the voice of a brilliantly comic consciousness. McDaniel is a candid, frisky survivor: hyperalert, conversant with drugs and sobriety, obscene phone call addicts, 'boner etiquette, ' fatherhood, the special hell of family, being an 'emotional warrior' and so much more. He's an urban wordsmith of the first order. You hold in your hands his anguished autobiography, a smorgasbord of famished compassion, tenderness, luminous surprises, and armor-piercing humor. - Amy Gerstler It was an energetic moment when I encountered Jeffrey McDaniel for the first time. Even after a few lines it became obvious that he was someone who produced not only a very vivid but also innovative poetry. A fusion of pain and goodness, comic reliefs, and explosive moments on the crunchy surface of daily horrors/shocks |