These wonderful new poems by Jeffrey McDaniel are full of images that evoke pain and humor at the same time. Tragic and comic, utterly contemporary yet evoking the sure-handedness of the ancient masters, these poems give fresh, original voice to modern life. Whether he's tackling dysfunctional family memories in "Broken Toy Club" and "The Most Awful Lullaby," or broken-hearted romance in poems like "Orbited by Kisses" and "Another Long Day in the Office of Dreams," McDaniel's love of language is everywhere evident.
Jeffrey McDaniel (born 1967 in Philadelphia) is a slam poet who has performed in diverse locations such asLollapalooza 1994, the National Poetry Slam, the Globe in Prague and the Moscow Writers Union.
His writing has been included in anthologies such as Ploughshares, The Best American Poetry 1994, and The New Young American Poets, and on the National Endowment for the Arts website.
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