With themes ranging from twenty-nothing ennui to love poems for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, from the trials of an academic upbringing in Philadelphia to the impossible wooing of a Muslim beauty, McDaniel paints a curious and compelling portrait of ordinary life. The result is a slightly surrealistic reading experience, with McDaniel's words expressing the humour, danger, and honest emotion of youth on the verge of the millenium.
With themes ranging from twenty-nothing ennui to love poems for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, from the trials of an academic upbringing in Philadelphia to the impossible wooing of a Muslim beauty, McDaniel paints a curious and compelling portrait of ordinary life. The result is a slightly surrealistic reading experience, with McDaniel's words expressing the humour, danger, and honest emotion of youth on the verge of the millenium.
"It takes genius to transcend the boring factionalism of U.S.
poetry and that's what Jeffrey McDaniel's got: his affiliation is
to the imagination. Fresh, provocative, non-doctrinaire, his poems
are the kind I want to grow up to write." -Bill Knott, author of
Outremer
"In Alibi School, Jeffrey McDaniel rips the country's skull out,
and says 'Alas, you poor slobbering sham of a place, screaming at
you doesn't work, I shall explode your lies with concentrated
metaphors...' " -- Bob Holman
"It takes genius to transcend the boring factionalism of U.S.
poetry and that's what Jeffrey McDaniel's got: his affiliation is
to the imagination. Fresh, provocative, non-doctrinaire, his poems
are the kind I want to grow up to write." -Bill Knott, author of
Outremer
"In Alibi School, Jeffrey McDaniel rips the country's skull out,
and says 'Alas, you poor slobbering sham of a place, screaming at
you doesn't work, I shall explode your lies with concentrated
metaphors...' " -- Bob Holman
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