Daniel Joshua Nagelberg
biography
When Daniel Joshua Nagelberg starts to write, you’d better believe there’s something terrifying going on in his brain. With a bottle of booze always nearby, Nagelberg never pulls a punch or hesitates to tell you how he sees it. Nagelberg was born in Hell and...[Read More]
Daniel Joshua Nagelberg
When Daniel Joshua Nagelberg starts to write, you’d better believe there’s something terrifying going on in his brain. With a bottle of booze always nearby, Nagelberg never pulls a punch or hesitates to tell you how he sees it. Nagelberg was born in Hell and plans to return there shortly. In the meantime while he is on this earth, he is penning some of the most brutally punishing work that can grow a cock on an angel’s forehead. Get some!
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Quit Me
by Daniel Joshua Nagelberg
“Quit Me is the third collection of poetry after Man Falling Backwards Down Stairs and Anger Report by Chicago poet Daniel Joshua Nagelberg. And with Quit Me, this poet has refined his disillusioned craft to a fine point and sticks it in life's eye... [Read More]
“Quit Me is the third collection of poetry after Man Falling Backwards Down Stairs and Anger Report by Chicago poet Daniel Joshua Nagelberg. And with Quit Me, this poet has refined his disillusioned craft to a fine point and sticks it in life's eye. Some might finish Quit Me and dismiss the writing as a liquor induced hate for all humanity. But I disagree. I think he would view the world as a hopeless retch regardless. His poems are a punch to the face of anyone who wears rose colored glasses. They're stories that expose the wounds of human nature and lay it out for all to see as he views it, bleak. These free form poems are for those who have no hope and those who'd like to know how that feels.”
— Chris Huntley.
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The Anger Report
by Daniel Joshua Nagelberg
Daniel Joshua Nagelberg's "Anger Report" is a condemnation of frivolity. His determinate observations of a stark and imposing lifestyle are purposeful and loaded as a Gatling gun. His familiar surreal environments also appear in this collection and they are stunning... [Read More]
Daniel Joshua Nagelberg's "Anger Report" is a condemnation of frivolity. His determinate observations of a stark and imposing lifestyle are purposeful and loaded as a Gatling gun. His familiar surreal environments also appear in this collection and they are stunning in their creepiness and violence. This is not to say that we readers are being led around the block to a continuation of his previous work,"Man Falling Backwards Down Stairs".
These writings have crawled or leaked out from the concepts of the former work. The temperature has been turned up and down repeatedly to further confuse the lust, loathing, awareness, bitterness, admonition and premonition. There is a lot of drinking and a lot of vitriol derived from a private life dominated by the constant urban presence of filth, disturbance, suffering, vermin, horror, poverty and ignorance. There are true to life events in bars, on buses, in the liquor store, at juvenile parties and on the floor of the bathroom. Mr. Nagelberg's stirring reclamation of these images as well as the shocking scenes of his imagination are as horrifying as any by Kurt Vonnegut even at his most pragmatic and brutal. There is a war going on both outside in Mr. Nagelberg's neighborhood as well as in the recesses of his mind. There is also some humor here interspersed sparingly to promote a balanced understanding of the purpose of this book. Daniel Joshua Nagelberg's "Anger Report" is written as if these were the last poems on Earth.
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Man Falling Backwards Down Stairs
by Daniel Joshua Nagelberg
Art is not created by the satisfied. The satisfied look out on the morning and accept the world as it is thus negating the desire for judgement. Like a sniper at a turd parade Daniel Joshua Nagelberg has the ills of his world in the crosshairs... [Read More]
Art is not created by the satisfied. The satisfied look out on the morning and accept the world as it is thus negating the desire for judgement. Like a sniper at a turd parade Daniel Joshua Nagelberg has the ills of his world in the crosshairs. Part scrutiny, part reticence, part fable, part rant, "Man Falling Backwards Down Stairs" is an outstanding exposition of a dissatisfied urban life. Daniel Joshua Nagelberg is at an imaginary bar with Bukowski on one side and Algren on the other quietly observing the rest of the villians have their way with each other.
In the present climate of suspicion and fear, "Man Falling Backwards Down Stairs" is a welcome window of honest dynamic emotions. Much like Rumi's treaties of lust, debauchery and understanding through intoxication Daniel Joshua Nagelberg's visions of a wicked world gone wild are engaging, startling and often terrifying in their familarity.
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