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In x, Dan Chelotti conjures voices that wander, pause, analyze, articulate, attempt to enlighten, fail to enlighten, and then answer that failure with laughter. The wildly inventive imagery in these cinematic pieces lodges them somewhere between the surreal and the pure symbol, colorful and smooth like the lyrics of John Ashbery or Linda Pastan. In

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"What is x It is a revelation to read. This poet is here to guide us through the places we will go. I will follow him. So should you."--Dorothea Lasky "Dan Chelotti's x is a first book, but one that has the bracing clarity of old souls like Jack Gilbert, James Tate, Mary Ruefle and Yannis Ritsos, along with the sensitivities and bravery of a young poet. The thoughts in the poems leap gracefully, and associate with a new but always perceivable, never alienating logic. These poems take on our troubles, as well as our task: to make sense of without reducing the world."--Matthew Zapruder "O Madonna mia! This poetry it makes me to laugh! Dan Chelotti, I heart you!"--Gary Shteyngart "Dan Chelotti's poems spin and jump through fire landing on their feet, but wait, whose feet are they, really They are magnificent contraptions with a heart of steel. They move me because they are real. I never know how they will turn out, and this is what keeps me reading. He's a poet with grace and beauty in his duffle bag, on his way to the front."--James Tate "Gripping and surprising... Chelotti has gotten a remarkable start."--Publishers Weekly "Funny and sometimes mysterious...Pavarotti and cheap plastic pumpkins are all part of Chelotti's poetic stew."--Shelf Awareness "X is delightful in its weirdness, surprisingly heartbreaking in its compassion"--Grantland "Dan Chelotti offers up verse in equal measures heartfelt and wry, almost always expressed in admirably straightforward language." --Burlesque Press

Author Bio

Dan Chelotti is the author of a chapbook, The Eights (Poetry Society of America, 2006), which was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the PSA's National Chapbook Fellowship. His poems and reviews have appeared in Fence, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review Online, and many other magazines, and they've been anthologized in State of the Union (Wave, 2008) and in Free Verse's "New Voices from New England Supplement." He has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and has worked as an Assistant Managing Editor for Verse Press. Chelotti is an Assistant Professor of English at Elms College in western Massachusetts.