{"id":5862,"date":"2014-02-20T19:14:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=5862"},"modified":"2022-10-25T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:00:29","slug":"clean","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Clean-front-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5853 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Clean-front-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Clean front cover\" width=\"2100\" height=\"3150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 80\u00a0pages \u2022 15.95<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-41-3<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu\/Cart2\/Chicagobook?ISBN=9781935536413&amp;PRESS=fourway\" data-color=\" data-color-hover=\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Add to Cart<\/a><br \/>\n[\/column]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Clean\u00a0<\/em>was<em>\u00a0<\/em>a finalist for the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the 2015 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h1><em>Clean<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>David J. Daniels<\/h2>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Winner of The Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>From the \u201cbasement \/ of that suburban church with its sad paint \/ job in Texas\u201d to an old drag queen\u2019s<br \/>\n\u201cparlor,\u201d \u201cthat bazaar of flounce, chintz, feathers,\u201d <em>Clean<\/em>, the award-winning collection by David J.<br \/>\nDaniels, tears back the curtain of life to expose gorgeousness and grit. These poems pay homage to the<br \/>\naddict, the grandmother, the closeted, and the lover, to the dead, the dying, and the living who refuse to<br \/>\ndie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Glory Hole,&#8221; from <em>Clean<\/em>:<\/p>\n<pre>Those lepers must've wept like drama queens\nWhen Francis opened up his robes to show\nWhere he was likewise bleeding. I would've wept.\nHaven't I wept over men whose bodies bore\nNo miracles? And posed for them, entranced,\nThrough bathroom stalls? Haven't I always posed\n<\/pre>\n<div style=\"width: 74%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\">As questions those aspects of the narrative<br \/>\nWhich would most reveal? What did he prove,<br \/>\nReveling with his wounds exposed?<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<div style=\"width: 50%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\">Something queer&#8217;s<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<div style=\"width: 74%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\">Afoot when Francis writes, <em>These glorious holes<br \/>\nHe passeth through are entrances<\/em>&#8212;<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<div style=\"width: 50%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\">To what?<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 50%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 50%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\"><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/david-j-daniels\/\" data-color=\"#ffffff\" data-color-hover=\"#efefef\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\">About the Author<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 50%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;] paper \u2022 80\u00a0pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-41-3 Add to Cart [\/column] Clean\u00a0was\u00a0a finalist for the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the 2015 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Clean David J. Daniels Winner of The Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry From the \u201cbasement \/ of that suburban church with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5862","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18288,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5862\/revisions\/18288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}