Armored Elevator

by Ryan Daley

Poetry. "In ARMORED ELEVATOR, Ryan Daley writes like a traveler who's never seen an airport in his life. Opening a crummy suitcase, he 'release(s) the Diaspora / from the citation' it received in an 'outre lewd' fist fight and goes fugitive. The Earth we wander with him is 'a wormy bot' where Jeremiad morphs into 'the new jingo' and 'there's no ice cream to cry into.' But fear not Daley speaks the pidgin of many a safe haven and after hours joint. A bad fit for the 'coterie of alphabetical choir guys, ' he's our best hope for finding the real murderer"--Michael Magee. "Ryan Daley is a dedicated dodgem of syntax. He is a multi kulti Mayan in Newark whose wit's as Pan-American as any Jose O'Shay's. He knows dystopias no longer wash unless in global neo-glot soup spracht. ARMORED ELEVATOR is one of the best--certainly the edgiest--first books I've read in quite awhile"--Michael Gizzi. Ryan Daley writes poems and lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and attends Brown University, where he is an M.F.A. candidate in Creative Writing. He is the Managing Editor of Combo Magazine

93 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 5 out of 5]

Daley's first book of poems is a dextrously crafted linguistic explosion. The best kind of literary suicide bombing. Without yawns, pretension, or highbrow nods to cryptic sources, "Armored Elevator" keeps the skeptic reader jumping for more.