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by: Daniel Nester
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781934289020
ISBN: 1934289027
Label: BlazeVOX Books
Manufacturer: BlazeVOX Books
Number Of Pages: 82
Publication Date: June 19, 2006
Publisher: BlazeVOX Books
Release Date: December 02, 2006
Sales Rank: 2041414
Studio: BlazeVOX Books
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With the publication of The History of My World Tonight, Daniel Nester has proven that he’s an absolute master of what he does; and what he does is dazzle us repeatedly with his elegant, prickly, and wickedly penetrating poems. Reading him is not unlike the greatness of discovering an eagle in a gift bag on your way home from a party: it’s not just great, it’s super freaky great. -- Todd Colby In The History of My World Tonight, Daniel Nester re-envisions The Beach Boys, The Brady Bunch, and the Bible. He takes on the Munchkins, Montale, Monet, and masturbation. But that’s just the beginning. In these intimate confessional and experimental poems, Nester delivers a complex psyche along with deadpan social commentary. This is an engagingly funny and tender book. -- Denise Duhamel We have in Daniel Nester a poet who speaks the language of the common man and woman well, that is, assuming the common man and woman were gifted with an uncommonly over-the-top sense of humor and an entirely personal sense of what Being a Poet Means to Me. Nester’s working it out here, and it’s a good thing too. Somebody, in this Age of Various Pretentious Schools of Poetry, needs to cut through the shit and clarify why anyone would want to read or write poems at this point in history. And Nester, with his well-documented pop culture leanings and his not-so-well-documented soul-searching, is just the man for the job. -- Jonah Winter Praise for God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen II: ‘[O]ne of the more interesting personas I’ve seen emerge in recent prose’ -- Sean Thomas Doherty, American Book Review ‘[C]onsiders a serious fan’s bliss impeccably’ -- Ken Tucker, The New York Times Book Review ‘This book is touching, highly literate, thought-provoking and very funny, in every way as over-the-top as Queen ever was’ -- Henry Yu, MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL ‘Note to those Readers who still want to believe in devotional verse; for those who seek a cure for a spirit sunk under undifferentiated elegance: Take [Daniel] Nester’s God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen II and Reader, write me in the morning.’ -- Ray McDaniel, Constant Critic ‘Nobody writes rock geek poetry like Daniel Nester.’ -- Jessa Crispin, Bookslut
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Rating: - a sly look into the life of a Brooklyn writer
In his two previous collections of poetry ("God Save My Queen" and "God Save My Queen II"), Daniel Nester mused about his idiosyncratic obsession with the rock band Queen. Now, with "The History of My World Tonight," Nester becomes his own Freddie Mercury as he turns the spotlight on himself. What I like most about this eclectic collection is its unabashed hunger and whipneck pace. Nester gives himself the freedom to write about any subject, in any style, for as long or as little he believes the ... Read More
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