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Daniel Staniforth

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Daniel Staniforth is a writer, composer, musician, and former Professor now residing in Bath, UK. He served for Fifteen years as an English & Writing professor at the Metropolitan State College of Denver and a Literature & Mythology professor at Front Range Community College. Daniel earned a Master's degree in Literature from Miami University (of Ohio) and writes poetry, fiction and theoretical work. His first full length book is Weaver in the Sluices: Selected Poems. Poet, Will Alexander, describes it as "an intermixing of zones where the light of the waking body rises and transmixes its power with falling uranian whispers. These poems exist at the cusp where both realities overspill and condense, making fleeting forays into the unsayable. Daniel Staniforth is a writer, composer, musician, and former Professor now residing in Bath, UK. He served for Fifteen years as an English & Writing professor at the Metropolitan State College of Denver and a Literature & Mythology professor at Front Range Community College. Daniel earned a Master's degree in Literature from Miami University (of Ohio) and writes poetry, fiction and theoretical work. His first full length book is Weaver in the Sluices: Selected Poems. Poet, Will Alexander, describes it as "an intermixing of zones where the light of the waking body rises and transmixes its power with falling uranian whispers. These poems exist at the cusp where both realities overspill and condense, making fleeting forays into the unsayable." This was followed by a book of short stories called Diddle, of which novelist Brian Evenson has said - "Diddle is packed with stories that fully articulate their premise and characters, coil like a spring, and then come to fruition when you least expect it. They have a genuine and original rhythm, one that will make you think differently about what fiction can do." He also edited and compiled an anthology of Basil King's work called Learning to Draw/A History and an anthology of Will Alexander's poetry called Kaleidoscopic Omniscience. His latest book, The Groundlings of Divine Will, has been described as "a controversial, self-reflexive, ironic and humorous response to the way that Shakespeare is so often taught in contemporary academia." Shorter pieces have featured in journals such as Rogue Poetry Review, The Houston Literary Review, Bombay Gin, Monkey Puzzle, Trickhouse, and InStereo Press. As a multi-instrumentalist and composer, he writes, records, and produces alternative, classical, Folk, and experimental music (including releases by Luna Trick, Alchymical Muse, Daniel Staniforth and Rebsie Fairholm). He composed a music score for a performance of Under Milk Wood at the Cheltenham Playhouse in the UK and released a music CD version of Margaret Randall's RUINS poems (with Rebsie Fairholm). For more information, visit https://lunatrick.bandcamp.com

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	Kaleidoscopic Omniscience by Will Alexander, Daniel Staniforth (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology by Laura Wright (Editor), Allen Ginsberg (Contributor), Anne Waldman (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weaver in the Sluices 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monkey Puzzle #10 by Nate Jordon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nancy Stohlman (Goodreads Author), Philip Loyd 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning to Draw / A History by Basil King, Daniel Staniforth (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diddle it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Groundlings of Divine Will it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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