Jeffrey McDaniel

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Jeffrey McDaniel (* 1967 in Philadelphia , USA) is an American performance poet and poet.

Life

McDaniel began his career in the performance poetry scene in the 1980s and was one of its best-known representatives. His poems have been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and German [see EDIT 38 and LICHTUNGEN. Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Zeitkritik 106] and published in important anthologies in his home country, for example in American Poetry: The Next Generation , The New Young American Poets , Legitimate Dangers. American Poets of the New Century and several times in The Best American Poetry . His first three volumes of poetry were published by Manic D Press , San Francisco, before moving to the University of Pittsburgh Press. Since 2001 he has been teaching creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He is married to the graphic artist Christine Caballero and lives in Cold Spring, New York. A first selection of poems in German translation was published by the Stuttgart loudspeaker publishing house under the title Katastrophenkunde , followed by a reading booklet ( Siamesische Gegensätze ) by the Berlin independent publishing house SuKuLTuR , before Hochroth Berlin recently published a selection collection entitled Heimatland Neurose .

Works

  • Alibi School (Manic D Press, 1995)
  • The Forgiveness Parade (Manic D Press, 1998)
  • The Splinter Factory (Manic D Press, 2002)
  • The Endarkenment (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008)
  • Chapel of Inadvertent Joy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013)

Press reviews

A slightly feverish megalomania ... obviously belongs to the mental motor skills of a genius. A vibration of this sympathetic megalomania can also be felt in the poems of the young American poet Jeffrey McDaniel ... His poems reveal a tendency towards the excessive, a desire for metaphorical over-the-shores, for surrealist exuberance. ( Michael Braun , Saarländischer Rundfunk 2005)

A sensation. An eye-catcher bursting with words, in whose breaks you get caught. ( Matthias Penzel , Rolling Stone, November 2006)

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SURNAME McDaniel, Jeffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American performance poet and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , USA