Description: "Bobbing alongside Margery Kempe-an illiterate medieval mystic who dictated the first autobiography in English-the ragged voice of this book-length poem 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. 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"--
Brief description: Daniel Tiffany is a poet and theorist who divides his time between Los Angeles and Berlin. He is the author of five previous full-length collections of poetry, including Privado (Action Books, 2010), The Dandelion Clock (Tinfish, 2010), and Neptune Park (Omnidawn, 2013), along with chapbooks from Oystercatcher Press and Noemi. Poems and documentary sources from his collection, The Work-Shy (Wesleyan University Press, 2016), which appeared under the signature of BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP, have been adapted for theater and incorporated into museum exhibitions across the U.S. Tiffany's poetry has appeared in journals such as Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, jubilat, Lana Turner, Fence, Iowa Review, Volt, Poetry Project Newsletter, Bomb, Chicago Review, Brooklyn Rail, and many others. In addition, five volumes of his literary criticism have been published by presses including Harvard and Johns Hopkins, as well as the University of Chicago and the University of California. And he is the author of the entry on "Lyric Poetry" in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Literature. Apart from his own writing, he has published translations from French, Greek, and Italian writers. He is a recipient of the Berlin Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin. www.danieltiffany.com