Clean

by David J. Daniels

Overview

From the “basement / of that suburban church with its sad paint / job in Texas” to an old drag queen’s “parlor,” “that bazaar of flounce, chintz, feathers,” Clean, the award-winning collection by David J. Daniels, tears back the curtain of life to expose gorgeousness and grit. These poems pay homage to the addict, the grandmother, the closeted, and the lover, to the dead, the dying, and the living who refuse to die.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935536413
Publisher:	Four Way Books
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Series:	Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry
Pages:	76
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

DAVID J. DANIELS is the author of the chapbooks Breakfast in the Suburbs (Seven Kitchens Press, 2012) and Indecency (Seven Kitchens Press, 2013). He teaches in the University Writing Program at the University of Denver.

Table of Contents

I

Public Indecency 3

The Casserole: a Postscript 6

After Hours at The Wok 8

Distant 9

Larghissimo 11

Intonation against the Mystery of My Sister 15

Missing 17

The Nail 18

Breakfast in the Suburbs 19

A Night at the Opera, 1975 21

Glory Hole 22

Hurricane David 24

This Is the Pink 27

II

Mere Hours after the Drag Show 35

Danny Starr: a Lament 36

Last Week You Took the Barium 46

Shooting at The Other Bar 47

Julia 50

The Age of Nancy 41

To a Closeted Groom on His Wedding Day 53

Shell Station 54

Farmer John 55

Clean 58

Letter to Curtis, Dead at Twenty-Four 60

Postscript to Curtis 63

To an Old Queen Getting Dressed 64

What People are Saying About This

D. A. Powell

“Daniels lifts the world onto his shoulders in his poems. Clean is his book of life, there is no one who is not redeemed.”