Nathaniel FitzGerald

The Wrenching of the Hip That Precedes the Blessing

Arts & Literature

“Throughout The Wrenching of the Hip, Daniel Jones takes the reader through disparate moods and references—a choice of interior paint color becomes a war-like battle of wits, robots pontificate on the meaning of artificial life, Mormons and prostitutes and sea monsters pass by as if they were nothing, a fat editor skips lunch. But through this diverse collection of images, there is a sacred sincerity to every word. Each poem reads almost like a prayer to the omnipresent deity through which all things came to be. And to those prayers, I say yes and amen.”