The Dandelion Clock

by Daniel Tiffany

Poetry. "Daniel Tiffany's 'pocket rhapsodies' are gorgeously spring-loaded, micro-tuned, and aching with time, time lost, syllabic time, dreamtime, time the conqueror. THE DANDELION CLOCK is a burning fuse and a wonderful book"--Peter Gizzi.

64 pages, Paperback

First published July 30, 2010

About the author

Daniel Tiffany is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including Privado (Action Books, 2010), Neptune Park (Omnidawn, 2013), and his most recent volume, Cry Baby Mystic, along with chapbooks from Oystercatcher Press and Noemi. In addition, Tiffany has been instrumental in the projects of BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP, including its celebrated first book, The Work-Shy, published in the Wesleyan Poetry Series in 2016. His poems have also appeared in journals such as Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, jubilat, Lana Turner, Fence, Bomb, Chicago Review, Brooklyn Rail, and many others. In addition, five volumes of his literary criticism—Toy Medium and Infidel Poetics, among them--have been published by presses including Harvard and Johns Hopkins, as well as the University of Chicago and the University of California. Tiffany 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.

Reviews

[Colorado Review]

Reviewed for Colorado Review by Kristina Marie Darling