Waxwings
''Waxwings is a book that takes observation, meditation, and memory as seriously as men and women take life and death. These elegiac lyrics show that Daniel Nathan Terry is unafraid of putting his experiences to use in the making of poems that ache after transcendence and long for revelation.'' --Jericho Brown, author ofPlease''The world of Waxwings is singed with a desire so potent even 'a rumor of fire/could reduce the neighborhood to ash.' Overhead, birds are 'feverish and thin as thorns.' Even the peach orchard burns. Yes, we are led down dangerous paths, but trust the poet will hold our hand through the deepest brush, brush at times ablaze. This is poetry at its hottest and most naked, a gorgeous book wrought from all of our fiercest ardors.'' --Kristin Bock, author ofCloistersHis true nature is beautiful, writes Daniel Nathan Terry, and we see this to be true in this book which looks at the past and boyhood through adult eyes, and with a mind tuned to the complexities of art, language and the sexual urge which drives us to connect, one to another. The poems here emanate as much from the body as they do from the mind, which makes them felt, intimate, alive. This is a smart, startling, cadenced book. --Mark WunderlichHis true nature is beautiful, writes Daniel Nathan Terry, and we see this to be true in this book which looks at the past and boyhood through adult eyes, and with a mind tuned to the complexities of art, language and the sexual urge which drives us to connect, one to another. The poems here emanate as much from the body as they do from the mind, which makes them felt, intimate, alive. This is a smart, startling, cadenced book. --Mark Wunderlich