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Summary: Even better than the last one!
Review: A book I'll treasure and go back to again and again!
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Summary: Writing of generous intelligence...
Review: Clearly blessed with a deep understanding of the human condition with a vein of humor that is ever-present that keep wrenching your gut, this book is a pleasure to read. Comical without giving reign to bathos, smart still not self-conscious, the honest voice of Jeff shines through.Though this critique is supposed to be focused primarily on the book, I wish to stray and tell anyone out there that, if they have to chance to see Jeffrey in person, please go. He is a delight and a sensation. peace.
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Summary: One Trick Pony
Review: Jeffrey McDaniel is a one trick pony: he writes one surreal punchline after another. Hopefully he'll branch out with his next collection and not use that same old shtick again and again.
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Summary: An Amazing Artist
Review: Jeffrey McDaniels paints incredible pictures inside my brain as I read through his poetry. "The Forgiveness Parade" is one book that I always keep by my side and can read over and over again. I'll be picking up his newest as soon as I have money!
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Summary: Very Descriptive
Review: My boyfriend is taking a poetry class in college. Mind you, he's not "sappy", like the stereotypical image of a poet or a fan of poetry; he's just a writer who wanted to conquer another art form. Anyway, the Professor read one of Jeff McDaniel's pieces and my boyfriend just loved it. He still had me purchase the book for him, though, so he wouldn't seem so "sappy."
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Summary: Very Descriptive
Review: My boyfriend is taking a poetry class in college. Mind you, he's not "sappy", like the stereotypical image of a poet or a fan of poetry; he's just a writer who wanted to conquer another art form. Anyway, the Professor read one of Jeff McDaniel's pieces and my boyfriend just loved it. He still had me purchase the book for him, though, so he wouldn't seem so "sappy."
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Summary: Probably the best book of poems written in the last decade.
Review: Never before have I read a book that was both so entertaining and artistically inspiring as this one. McDaniel is a major reason that poetry is back on the map... a pleasure to read!
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Summary: Mister Metaphor Continues
Review: The badger has built another work of art that catches us midway between undeniable genius and absolute wit. His uncanny celebration of images again takes us by surprise. McDaniels improvises like Bruce Lee fights. He hits us with surprising emotional force and can change up without you noticing. Yet it is his metaphors that keep zapping us. They are small miracles, little inventions that should be patented as inventions. They could take the place of the cotton gin, the flywheel or the buggy. They (the metaphors) mean that much.
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Summary: He Should Ask for Readers' Forgiveness
Review: The best comparison I can think of is this collection of poetry is a Big Mac, when you really wanted something more satisfying like a steak. Poem after poem seems caught up in self-aware, self-indulgent "look at me I'm a poet!" and ideas never taken to their full extent. None of these poems are overly memorable. Some seem just shallow attempts to offend as many people as possible, recycling themes that have been used over and over again, but often done better by other poets. Perhaps he is an excellent reader in person, but the poems should have some power when read on their own, which these fail to do.
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Summary: Arresting, Inspiring
Review: The originality of Mc Daniel's imagination is matched only by the generosity of his humor and the breath of his empathy. Again and again this collection impresses upon us a giddy sense of joy, that alternates quickly with a wry take on pain. In his able hands, McDaniel shows us that the world is plastic, and belongs to all of us. His surrealism is so organic, he pulls it off so effortlessly, that we come to understand that the wonder of his poems is merely pointing us towards the greatness of our own untapped potential. Bravo.
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