Magic Helicopter Press

Perfectbound | 64 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9841406-0-2
$10

• DESCRIPTION •

A full length book of poems by Daniel Bailey. From forgiveness in a beehive to tiny banquets for retired janitors, Bailey's celebrated sonnet sequence arrives in a perfectbound volume that you can carry and eat and hold against your heart when your heart catches a shake. Bailey's work has appeared in No Colony, Abraham Lincoln, NOÖ Journal, elimae, Opium Magazine and more. He is from Muncie, Indiana.

Cover art by Chelsea Martin

• EXCERPTS •

from the DRUNK BLOG: 1, 8, 10, 14, 17, 18, 21, 27, 45, 53

• BLURBS •

K. Silem Mohammad: "This is poetry that grabs you by the shirt collar, sprays rank 80-proof emotion in your face, and makes you like it."

Sam Pink: "Daniel Bailey walks in, the Midwest sadness embedded as deeply in him as his Kool-Aid moustache, and he puts his hands over the book and blesses it."

• INTERVIEWS •

w/ Sam Pink at Dogzplot
w/ Ani Smith at Writers Bloc
w/ Sean Lovelace

• REVIEWS •

by Karen Munro at Reading Local: Portland: "[The poems] are by turns funny, loopy, morose, intense, impossible to understand, completely familiar, and involved in their own private jokes and half-pickled ideas."

by Erin McNellis at Uncomplicatedly: "... As we feel our way back from posturing in silly haircuts to occasionally being able to say what we mean, we are going to encounter a lot of weird situations that look a lot like Bailey’s poems."

• AROUND THE INTERNET •

Jamie Iredell: "I am scared of what Daniel Bailey writes because he's good at it."
J.A. Tyler: "More complex than the title admits."
DJ Berndt: "The poems are sad and beautiful and funny."
Ani Smith: "Some people just have puppy power bursting out of the drawing on their goddamn bellies."
Justin Tenley: "I have never laughed out loud so often while reading anything."
Elizabeth Ellen: "A fine book to open upon returning home from a Holiday party."
Adam Robinson: "Behind the case-insensitivity there is real sensitivity."
Christopher Newgent: "If poems were kung fu, Daniel’s kung fu would be good–like, Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique good."

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