The History of My World Tonight

by Daniel Nester, Daniel Nestor

Daniel Nester has proven that he's an absolute master of what he does; and what he does is dazzle us repeatedly with his elegant, prickly, and wickedly penetrating poems. Reading him is not unlike the greatness of discovering an eagle in a gift bag on your way home from a it's not just great, it's super freaky great.--Todd Colby ***In The History of My World Tonight , Daniel Nester re-envisions The Beach Boys, The Brady Bunch, and the Bible. He takes on the Munchkins, Montale, Monet, and masturbation. But that's just the beginning. In these intimate confessional and experimental poems, Nester delivers a complex psyche along with deadpan social commentary. This is an engagingly funny and tender book.--Denise Duhamel ***We have in Daniel Nester a poet who speaks the language of the common man and woman well, that is, assuming the common man and woman were gifted with an uncommonly over-the-top sense of humor and an entirely personal sense of what Being a Poet Means to Me. Nester's working it out here, and it's a good thing too. Somebody, in this Age of Various Pretentious Schools of Poetry, needs to cut through the shit and clarify why anyone would want to read or write poems at this point in history. And Nester, with his well-documented pop culture leanings and his not-so-well-documented soul-searching, is just the man for the job.--Jonah Winter ***Praise for God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen  '[O]ne of the more interesting personas I've seen emerge in recent prose' -- Sean Thomas Doherty, American Book Review '[C]onsiders a serious fan's bliss impeccably' -- Ken Tucker, The New York Times Book Review 'This book is touching, highly literate, thought-provoking and very funny, in every way as over-the-top as Queen ever was' -- Henry Yu, MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL 'Note to those Readers who still want to believe in devotional verse; for those who seek a cure for a spirit sunk under undifferentiated Take [Daniel] Nester's God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen II and Reader, write me in the morning.' -- Ray McDaniel, Constant Critic 'Nobody writes rock geek poetry like Daniel Nester.' -- Jessa Crispin, Bookslut

Genres: Poetry

82 pages, Paperback

First published June 19, 2006

About the author

Daniel Nester is the author most recently of Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects (99: The Press 2015). Previous books include How to Be Inappropriate (Soft Skull, 2010), God Save My Queen I and II (Soft Skull, 2003 and 2004), and The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody, 2014), which he edited. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Morning News, The Rumpus, Best American Poetry, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, and Now Write! Nonfiction. He is an associate professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.

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