Introducing Jerry

I would like to introduce another blogger who’ll be joining me on a regular basis. His name is Jerry and he is an accomplished poet.

Here are what the critics are saying about Daft Gnosis, the new anthology of his work.

“Literally brimming with words and punctuation.”

“Daft Gnosis kindles a small fire on your lapels, sets your hair ablaze, and then asks you to consider the color of the flame. Read at your own risk."

“Jerry's poems are gently and consistently upsetting, though less serious than they seem. They describe all the forms of social discomfort that exist, and some others besides.”

“Slick, water-resistant stuff. Poems to paper your parlor with, poems that will survive El Nino.”

“Jerry has reached that point in his writing where the nerves are worn down to their roots, where the voice is essentially no longer audible. Read it silently or out loud, or later.”

“Stands alone among contemporary poets in the way he intervenes in the relentless operations of the ocular regime and the something or other.”

“Mr. Demitasse is funny when he isn’t moving, brainy when he isn’t silly, contemplative when he isn’t shouting. If only he were, say, silly, we should know how to 'place' him. But he is merely—merely!—funny, moving, brainy, silly, contemplative, and shouting. That will have to do.”

“The spectacular, uninterrupted malaise of Mr. Demitasse’s career is presented here for the first time in its entirety.”

“A true American original—here is an urban poet lazing on a porch swing in a gated community, anatomizing the post-9/11 world with a tumbler of Crystal Light, a carton of low-tar cigarettes, and a sitcom sense of closure.”

“Poetry like this is a mirror in which we see ourselves not by reflecting in lazy categories, but as telemarketers or our psychopharmagologists see us.”

“Cock-eyed, bow-legged, and footloose—yet persnickety—this verse bumps up against the world like a drunken sailor with OCD.”