Once described by Dave Smith as "a one-man symphony," Dacey here ranges widely in tones, strategies, and forms, a diversity appropriate for one who characteristically mediates on American identity. In these poems, Dacey winds together many strands--our national pop culture, the vagaries of human discourse, death, and sexuality--and frames them in a narrative as comic as it is plangent.
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Once described by Dave Smith as "a one-man symphony," Dacey here ranges widely in tones, strategies, and forms, a diversity appropriate for one who characteristically mediates on American identity. In these poems, Dacey winds together many strands--our national pop culture, the vagaries of human discourse, death, and sexuality--and frames them in a narrative as comic as it is plangent.
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