The Book of Daniel
Poems
Published on 28. August 2019
119 pages
978-0-8229-8697-3 (ISBN)
Description
A tour de force, Aaron Smith's fourth collection of poetry, The Book of Daniel, resists the easy satisfactions of Beauty while managing the contemporary entanglements of art, sex, and grief. Part pop-thriller, part queer rage, and part mourning, these poems depict not only the complications of representation in the age of social media but a critique of identity. Taking on subjects as diverse as the literary canon, his mother's incurable cancer diagnosis, gay bashing, celebrity gossip, bigotry, violence on TV, and Alexander McQueen's suicide, Smith proves that the confessional lyric is not dead. In tangents as wild as they are reigned, with his characteristic blend of directness, vulnerability and humor, these poems take on the world as it is, a world we love even as it resists all intimacy.
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Aaron Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Primer, Appetite, and Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Ploughshares and Best American Poetry. A three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, he is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Mass Cultural Council. He is associate professor of creative writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- I Need My O'Hara Frank
- 1.
- Celebrity
- Thermopylae
- Get Thee to a Nunnery.
- My Parents' 50th Wedding Anniversary
- The Year Annie Lennox Released "Why"
- The Book of Folly
- The Dancing Lesbian
- The Book of Daniel
- Blind Date
- Pretty
- A Critical History of Contemporary American Poetry
- 2.
- Trigger Warning:
- Diagnosis
- Eight Suicides
- Cosmopolitan Greetings
- The Pulitzer Prize
- Living
- Delayed Elegy
- When the Towers Came Down
- A History of Sex
- For Men Who Have Never Made Love to a Man
- All My Life
- I Pledge Allegiance to the Fag
- 3.
- Shia LaBeouf Enters
- "The Only One" by Hilton Als
- Faggotry
- Once I Was Seven Sandra Bullocks
- Blooper Reel
- Contemporary Art
- Backbiter
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know
- The Trump Years
- Dumb Mouth
- Poetry can save the world!
- You Better Get Used to This
- 4.
- I Wish I Knew Things
- Gold Dog Moon
- The Rest of It
- "Things I Could Never Tell My Mother"
- Alexander McQueen
- Tumor Moon,
- Blanket
- Strong Place
- The Crystal Lithium
- There's Still One Story
- Elegy
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
