Partyknife by Dan Magers
Partyknife by Dan Magers, graduate, the MFA in Creative Writing at The New School.
Birds LLC, 2012
“‘I wanted to be high, but now I’m trapped in my life.’ Frustrated by the limits of his world, Partyknife’s youthful speaker wears a mask of aloofness that incompletely conceals his yearning. His poems strain to hold his exuberance, and his studied detachment belies his racing heart. ‘Everything I hated has become my life now. By which I mean how happy I am.’ These poems are angry, insistent, and wildly in love with life.”—Sarah Manguso