I Tell You This Now

In joy and terror all at once, the shining elegies and buoyant love

poems of I Tell You This Now by Daniel Lawless unfold. Lawless

has the uncanny ability to create piercing elegies that behave like

tender breakup poems. His love poems are no less sublime. (After

minutely describing a farmer's vintage tools, he dissolves them to

lingerie... The result is a love poem that ends both very far yet very

close indeed to those historical implements.) One of the deep

pleasures of reading I Tell You This Now is that you never know

quite where you're going until you get there. And getting there

means getting it: the shock of gorgeous and gruesome recognition

in each upturned world in Daniel Lawless's remarkable poems.

-Molly Peacock

Author: Daniel Lawless
Publisher: Cervena Barva Press
Published: 02/07/2024
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d
ISBN: 9781950063802

About the Author
Lawless, Daniel: - Daniel Lawless is the author most recently of The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With. Recent poems appear in FIELD, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Los Angeles Review, upsteet, SOLSTICE, Manhattan Review, Massachusetts Review, JAMA, and Dreaming Awake: New Prose Poetry from the U.S., Australia, and the U.K., among others. A recipient of a continuing Shifting Foundation grant, he is the founder and editor of Plume: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, Plume Editions, and the annual Plume Poetry anthologies.

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