Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of Alibi School, The Forgiveness Parade, and The Splinter Factory. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1994, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and New (American) Poetry. He has won several awards, including an NEA Fellowship. He teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
Confessions of a Flawed Deity
p. 3
Origins
p. 5
Summer of Stationary Road Trips
p. 6
The Pool
p. 8
Heavy Breather Zoo
p. 10
What I left out of "Summer of Stationary Road Trips"
p. 11
The Quicksand Hourglass
p. 12
Exercising My Demons
p. 14
Zugzwang
p. 15
The Endarkenment
p. 19
Ethel Rosenberg Addressing Her Brother, David Greenglass
p. 21
Matisse/Picasso Painting Exchange, 1907
p. 22
The Real Dick Cheney
p. 23
The Soul Farmer
p. 24
from The Emotional Warrior Handbook
p. 25
Trent Lott Addressing the Log Cabin Republicans
p. 26
Meditations on the Death Penalty
p. 27
Guidebook to Nowhere
p. 31
Lament for a Shriveling Flesh Plant
p. 32
I send you this leaf
p. 33
Don't touch it!
p. 34
Good
p. 35
Compulsively Allergic to the Truth
p. 36
New Word for Tongue
p. 38
Arrivederci Lipstick
p. 39
Impersonal Ad #47
p. 40
from The Diaries of Cinnamon Holloway
p. 41
Boner Etiquette
p. 42
Morning walk, 43 hours without sleep
p. 45
Whitman on the F
p. 47
Watch the Closing Doors
p. 49
Air Empathy
p. 51
Wildlife on the 4
p. 52
Odysseus on the G
p. 53
St. Theresa of the 6
p. 54
Blessings from the Shrine Pit
p. 55
Little Sadness
p. 59
Oblivion Chiclets
p. 60
Day 4305
p. 62
The USS Goodbye
p. 66
Self-Portrait as a Trampoline, or the six-month anniversary of my daughter's birth
p. 67
Just for the Record
p. 68
The Outburst
p. 69
Self-Portrait as a Stick of Butter, or the four-day anniversary of my daughter's birth
p. 71
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