Dancing for Victoria: The Poems of Daniel Thomas Moran

Affable & affordable, wacky & woozy, these are, for the most part, survivalist poems that work, & that's uncommon, because survival means preserving a certain spirit now being absented from the world & human discourse. Daniel Moran accomplishes this through his sureness in his talent & his insistence on composing whatever pleases him, damning the ugly & praising the beautiful in a wide range of poems: pastoral nocturnes, evocations of urban life, religious quest & political statement, word play & whimsy, & complex meditations. "Suburban geography sometimes has a savage metaphysics. There is too much plastic, & not enough meadows for daydreaming," he writes. But alienation from community is resolved in this book in its balance of toughness & sensitivity, its skill in handling a difficult range of subject matter; the clarity embodied in the language, & the touches of humor that often sting as the poet quests after the entirety of life. To order: Daniel Thomas Moran, Box 2008, Shelter Island, NY 11964. Telephone: 516-749-4149.Moran, Daniel T. is the author of 'Dancing for Victoria: The Poems of Daniel Thomas Moran', published 1992 under ISBN 9780962922107 and ISBN 0962922102.