Poetry. "The work of David Breskin is political, lyrical and funny. In poems like 'Smart Money,' a denunciation of money's arrogance, his intelligence has the power to sing. A classic of its kind, 'Da Hood' contains all the virtues of his writing: compression, conceptual energy, humor; 'Town Crier' displays his edgy lyricism. A poet of concentrated language, Breskin is also an astute cultural critic. At his best, he is among the finest younger poets now writing"—Paul Hoover.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

David Breskin is the author of a three books of poems, FRESH KILLS (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1997), Escape Velocity (Soft Skull Press, 2004), and Supermodel (Soft Skull Press, 2006); a novel, The Real Life Diary of a Boomtown Girl (Viking, 1989); a play, "Kids in the Dark"; a collection of interviews with film directors Francis Coppola, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Clint Eastwood, Robert Altman and Tim Burton, Inner Views: Filmmakers in Conversation (Faber and Faber, 1992) and reprinted in a new and expanded edition by Da Capo in 1997; and a book and CD collaboration of poems and paintings and music with Ed Ruscha and Wilco's Nels Cline, DIRTY BABY (Prestel, 2010). His poems have appeared in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, DoubleTake, TriQuarterly, NEW AMERICAN WRITING, Parnassus, Salmagundi, Quarterly West, and Boulevard.