Poetry. "Racy, playful, and ultimately rather ominous, these intricate poems gather up centuries in a single sweep and make it all shockingly pop. There is a brooding intelligence here, radiant with fireworks and emergency flares. A brilliant read"--Cole Swensen. "'Supposing a doll of mysterious origin, a mechanical marvel, falls into your hands.' So begins Daniel Tiffany's daring and brilliant PUPPET WARDROBE. Each poem an echo chamber of song, cant, discourse letting loose an entire trove of voices, sayings, bending rhymes and jargonelle. What an ear lives here. Not since Eliot have we heard such a throwing of tavern talk"--Gillian Conoley.
Author City: VENICE, CA USA
Daniel Tiffany received his training in the theater at the Juilliard School in New York City, where he studied with Marian Seldes and the great, modern clown, Bill Irwin. He later read modern and classical languages, with Norman O. Brown, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago and has published translations of works by Sophocles, Georges Bataille, and the Italian poet Cesare Pavese. His critical works include Radio Corpse: Imagism and the Cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound (Harvard University Press, 1995) and Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric (University of California Press, 2000), the latter named one of the "Best Books of 2000" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His poetry, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has appeared in many journals, including Tin House, Boston Review, and the Paris Review. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Karolyi Foundation in France and been the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship. His poetry collections are PRIVADO (Action Books, 2011), THE DANDELION CLOCK (Tinfish Press, 2010), and PUPPET WARDROBE (Parlor Press, 2006). Tiffany lives in Venice, California, and teaches at the University of Southern California.
Reviews and Other Links
http://bostonreview.net/BR32.4/article_microreviews.php
http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2007/01/puppet-wardrobe.html
http://www.constantcritic.com/joyelle_mcsweeney/puppet_wardrobe/