Cry Baby Mystic

Daniel Tiffany

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Bobbing alongside Margery Kempe—an illiterate medieval mystic who dictated the first autobiography in English—the ragged voice of Cry Baby Mystic finds itself drawn into strange predicaments that are not its own and ferried into abandoned spaces by the gearing of stardom and shame. The revolving sentences overheard by the reader--a muffled chorus of Brechtian aftershocks--survive only as traces of sorrow now craved by all who have known it: sound gossiping the unsound, the excess of the pilgrim. A person climbs out and never comes home.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643172033
• Langue: English

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PARLOR PRESS
TIFFANY CRY BABY MYSTIC
In Daniel Tiffany’s Cry Baby Mystic, somatic questions join hands in a waltz On a stormy day, Cry Baby Mystic glares like a scrap of cellophane.
of ragged secrets and placards of reborn language, hidden police, and scratchy — Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne
names. Trembling voices crawl out from the page and then right into us — or
do they climb out of us and into the scene? — growing horse veins on their
necks and Googling the scene (as they speak).
— Sara Deniz Akant, author of Babette
Daniel Tiffany is a true virtuoso. His taut syllabics incorporate a range of
idioms, at once demotic and high–flown; the sprung line breaks — the
interruptions and stutterings — sharpen consciousness. The poem’s
cry–baby–mystic voice does no one’s bidding and thereby thrills the muses.
In tone and method and subject, Tiffany courts the deep end; the poem
opens up a sinkhole on every page, and out of this well, a Hölderlin–esque
outpouring of divine moodiness makes itself heard.
— Wayne Koestenbaum, author of Figure It Out
The speculative drive of Daniel Tiffany’s inventive book–length poem offers
a flurry of suspicions, forays, wisdoms. Micro–conversations spin up into
our field of listening, then just as quickly fade away. Though the approach
is playful, the beauty in this book is serious and emerges in a seriously
beautiful way. Down–pressers and Mobb Deep make an appearance! And
there is pain, a calling out in exasperation, celebration, visionary joy.
— Shane Book, author of Congotronic, finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize
Margery Kempe won’t stop crying and no one can do anything about it. Hyper–
formal and bent out of shape, Cry Baby Mystic turns into the song of a
“mud oboe” that leaves us hushed, “hunched,” in the dark.
— Keith Tuma, author of Climbing into the Orchestra
Daniel Tiffany is the author of six full–length collections of poetry and five
volumes of literary criticism, along with translations of Greek, French, and
Italian writers. He is a recipient of the Berlin Prize, awarded by the American
Academy in Berlin.
www.danieltiffany.com
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Poetry
The Work-Shy (under the signature of Blunt Research Group), Wesleyan
Poetry Series, 2016.
Neptune Park, Omnidawn Publishing, 2013.
Privado, Action Books, 2010.
The Dandelion Clock, Tinfsh Press, 2010.
Puppet Wardrobe, Parlor Press, 2006.
Chapbooks
Lost Privilege Company (under the signature of Blunt Research Group),
Noemi Press, 2016.
Brick Radio, Oystercatcher Press (Norfolk, UK), 2014.
Theory & Criticism
My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch, Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2014.
In the Poisonous Candy Factory, Capsule Editions (London, UK), 2013.
Infdel Poetics: Riddles, Nightlife, Substance , University of Chicago
Press, 2009.
Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric, University of California
Press, 2000.
Radio Corpse: Imagism and the Cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound, Harvard
University Press, 1995.CRY BABY MYSTIC
Daniel Tiffany
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About the Author 97
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vAcknowledgments
Thanks to the editors of the following journals, where sections of this poem
have been published (in earlier drafts):
Bennington Review
BOMB
Brooklyn Rail
Colorado Review
Denver Quarterly
FENCE
Flash Cove (Australia)
Iowa Review
Journal of Poetics Research (Australia)
New American Writing
The Tiny
Tupelo Quarterly
VOLT
West Branch
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