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Joel Dailey<\/h2>\n

ISBN 10: 0966384628
\nISBN 13: 978-0966384628
\n96 pages: $9.00
\nMay, 1999<\/p>\n

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Andrei Codrescu:<\/p>\n

Joel Dailey uses an extremely sharp facet of the Language Crystal to operate on a flabby world that has had the nerve to be his. As unsparing as the jagged edge is, it quakes with laughter even as it cuts. This is the poetry of the Laughing Shiv, powered by eloquence. The effect is like watching a snail shell form, language turning in on itself as the LS carves and carves its cliche-plump and pop-full meat. Dare I say it? Joel Dailey is the Robinson Jeffers of Post-Pop, an expansive nature poet whose nature is on TV. His work contains also the most thorough on-going critique of pretention in whatever form she may have been proclaimed. The shiv aims for the phoniness in the zeitgeist and comes off bloody more often than not.<\/p>\n

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Anselm Hollo:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“My philosophy\u2014 velocity!,” says Joel Dailey (in “Infection, Detection, Rejection), and it serves him both well and right! The poems in this book have more exclamation points, visible and invisible, than the collected workds of Alexander Dumas the Elder. Perfect for both space and time capsules, they embody the delirious over-amped atmosphere of Y2K US<\/p>\n

where the rubber fits snugly over the arching banana…
\nwhere the Sunned & the Stunned wait
\nfor excrement to happen.<\/p>\n

On a planet entranced by Amerikana, Joel Dailey’s works are bound for international and eventually intergalactic acclaim! No question! Any questions? No? Well, then (to mildly paraphrase Doc Williams), fasten your seatbelts, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to laugh like hell!<\/p>\n

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Hank Lazer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Joel Dailey’s Lower 48 is an energetic, humorous, edgy successor to Allen Ginsberg’s “America.” In Dailey’s end of the millennium America, “pricetags dangled from the clouds” and “every personal memory I’ve ever cherished is\/ on TV!” Dailey wanders this world of manipulative consumerism resisting its hold with his blazing stun-guns of outrage, paranoia, passion, and comedy, leaving a laminated America del Norte in his wake.<\/p>\n

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Joel Dailey is the author of:<\/p>\n

Exploring Another Leg<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pentagram Press, 1975
\nPositions<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Morgan Press, 1976
\nFirst Crescent<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stardancer Publications, 1976
\nMars, 1953<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rumba Train Press, 1979
\nCurrent<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 O2 Press, 1983
\nAngry Red Blues\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Acre Press, 1986
\nAudience, Ambience, Ambulance\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Blank Gun Silencer, 1993
\nDoppler Effects\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Shockbox Press, 1993
\nPublic Storage\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Norton Coker Press, 1995
\nRelease Window\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Semiquasi Press, 1996
\nHours of Fun<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blank Gun Silencer, 1996
\nLower 48<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lavender Ink, 1999
\nBiopic<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Igneus Press, 1999
\nProblem 35\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0 Fell Swoop, 2001
\nNot On The Cover<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lot M, 2002
\nNutria Bounce\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Open 24 Hours, 2002
\nWallpaper Like A Pro\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Unarmed, 2007
\n45 Minutes To Air\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Acre Press, 2008
\nStarring Ben Affleck<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lavender Ink, 2008
\nMy Psychic Dogs\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My Life\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Lavender Ink, 2008<\/a>
\nSex Without Trying<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nameaug Press, 2010
\nSurprised By French Fries\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011
\nIndustrial Loop\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Lavender Ink, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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