Poetry. Winner of the 2003 National Poetry Series, MURDER (A VIOLET) "is a prismatic poem, composed of polished facets. Raymond McDaniel's language trains every particle of your attention on the surface and what stirs beneath"--C.D. Wright. In McDaniel's own words, "MURDER is constructed according to the principle of holographic memory, which dictates that every fragment of an image contains all the information relevant to that image, every detail necessary to achieve its perfect reconstruction." Raymond McDaniel lives in Ann Arbor where he writes for the Constant Critic and teaches at the University of Michigan.

Author City: Ann Arbor, MI USA

Raymond McDaniel is the author of the National Poetry Series award-winning collection Murder (a violet). His writing appears in many magazines and in the anthology American Poets in the 21st Century. A Floridian, McDaniel now lives in Ann Arbor, teaches at the University of Michigan, hosts the reading series at Shaman Drum Bookshop, and writes for The Constant Critic.