Books
The Cataracts
Raymond McDaniel
“McDaniel renders each poem’s discoveries with a worthwhile particularity.” —Publishers Weekly
“The Cataracts is a book of blurred vision, a theme imbued into the spaces between the lines, into the memories of the narrator—memories that feel like a game.” —The Millions
“A registering, a remembering, a naming, a seeing behind and beyond seeing: The Cataracts is a book of blindness and insight, offering a tenderly, sometimes painfully, scrutinized world. With gorgeous catalogs, reticulated narratives, and...
Saltwater Empire
Raymond McDaniel
A multivoiced saga of devastation and rebirth in the Caribbean and Gulf Coast. Conceived in the years before Hurricane Katrina and deeply influenced by its aftermath, Saltwater Empire is a brilliant assemblage of geographical metaphor expressed in original lyrics, text from The Tempest, and the voices of ravaged New Orleans residents. As McDaniel’s poems enter the ecological, political, and religious miasma of the Gulf Coast, they offer an uncommonly perceptive look at cataclysmic disaster, human cruelty, and cultural resilience.
“[McDaniel] has made not rhetoric, but stunning, ...
See More