Book Description
Temptation Island meets Leaves of Grass. Reality-based programming comes to free verse with Lesbian Trapped in a Mans Body. Using real speech, dramatic situations, and a no-holds-barred approach, Daly tells the story of a Yankee songwriter seeking his fortune in Nashville and fighting to survive interracial lust, betrayal, schoolgirl crushes, heavy drinking, gay love, kinky chicks, and your cheatin heart.

From the Publisher
Daly is a different kind of poet: not boring. He's been called "Robert Frost with a penis" because of his casual yet polished style and his frequent reference to sex. His controversial themes, blunt language, and insensitivity to others have earned him a reputation as "the least beloved poet in America." At the same time, his work has been published in some of the nation's best alternative poetry magazines, including Pearl, Chiron Review, Poetry Motel, The Penny Dreadful Review, The Plastic Tower, Nerve Bundle Review, children churches & daddies, and IMPish IMPETUS EROTIC-AHHH. If you're sick of the bland poetry that's been shoved down your throat since kindergarten, here's the alternative--Brian Daly's Lesbian Trapped in a Man's Body.

From the Author
Say What?--Q&A Q: What's the book about? A: Birth, life, death, perseverance--that kind of stuff. Q: What is poetry? A: A teddy bear, something fake to cling to when you're alone in the dark. Q: What kind of poetry do you write? A: Seems to be split evenly between dirty stories and brutal self-accusations. Q: Who influenced you? A: If you can tell, I'm not worth reading. Q: Where did you get the title? A: It just came to me one day, and I hoped it was close enough to the subject that I could use it. Unfortunately.... Q: Is that you on the back cover? A: That's me in the eighties, when the poems were written, before I started to get cute. Q: Why is the language and subject matter so gross? A: What's your life like? Q: What are your ambitions? A: To publish a full-page poem in Harper's, put a couple more books on the shelf, and read a poem on Saturday Night Live.

About the Author
America's Least Beloved Poet Brian Daly was born on Long Island in 1952 and grew up there and in central Massachusetts. He won a scholarship to Dartmouth, where he pledged Sigma Alpha Epsilon and lived in the frat house across from Baker Library. At Dartmouth, he met Richard Eberhart and Allen Ginsberg and won the Lockwood Prize in writing but finished near the bottom of this class. "Thank God for the hockey players!" he says. After graduation, be built a geodesic dome and lived there for five years, writing songs and a few of the poems that appear in this book. Then he moved to Nashville and pitched his songs without success. In 1983, he bought a birthday card for a friend and taped a poem to the inside. The poem was "Thirty-Gurdy," which became the first poem in Lesbian Trapped in a Man's Body. Daly finished the first draft of Lesbian in 1987 with a series of poems about the birth of his son. Since then, he's edited the collection--his first--with help from the Dreadfulites, a Nashville poetry circle he joined in 1995. Along the way, his poems have appeared in some of the nation's best alternative poetry magazines, including Pearl, Chiron Review, Poetry Motel, Nerve Bundle Review, and others. His controversial themes, blunt language, and insensitivity to others have earned him a reputation as "the least beloved poet in America." He's also been called "Robert Frost with a penis" because of his casual yet polished style and his frequent reference to sex. Says Dreadfulites founder C Ra McGuirt, "Good poetry is primarily concerned with the dance of words. It avoids intentional obtuseness, moral posturing, emotional caterwauling, and blatant self-aggrandizement." Asked how he prepared his book for publication, Daly says, "I took out everything that sounded like poetry." Lesbian Trapped in a Man's Body is a ride you won't soon forget.

Excerpted from Lesbian Trapped in a Man's Body by Brian Daly. Copyright © 2001. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Catholic Girl You can't do anythingwith a Catholic girlwho sits alone with youin the eye doctor's waiting room--glowing in plaid skirt,bobby sox and saddle shoes--scoping you with a glancefrom Vanity Fair. Impossible to speakwhy your eyes keep strayingto her bare crossing and uncrossing legs. Instead you sit wigglingyour loafers,searching for gutsto bury your facein her pink kneesand sob: "Thank you!Thank you forbeing so beautiful!" Then the office door pops openand a woman in white says"Megan, your Daddy willsee you now." ---------- Death of the Best Wine Value in America I was jerking casesoff display aboutonce a month:four 3-liter jugsfor less than $2 a liter,tax included. It stood up for younight after night, evenwith an inch of tap watertopping offyour big goblet.Killer wine,and they priced itlike milk, almost. *** "You have no ideawhat I'll do with this!" I'd tell the clerk."I'll take it outon my porchand look at stars,draw big picturesin a notebook. You can'tput a price on that!" "$22.37," he'd sayafter the register beeped,and I'd fork overthe bills, cut outwith a huge cartonof cheap inspiration--telling myself laterwhile puffing a gooddrug store cigar:"There's still roomfor a bright lad of modest meansto live the good lifein America!" *** "Where's the Hearty Burgundy?"I ask my man in the Gallo T-shirt."Zinfandel grapes too expensive--"he says. "No more deals!" *** Back on the porch tonight,pen poised andpeering into the faceof an alien wine,I see that I'm betrayerand betrayed.I fling my goblet to the windsand go back inside.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Brian Daly is a different kind of poet: not boring. He￯﾿ﾽs been called ￯﾿ﾽRobert Frost with a penis￯﾿ﾽ because of his casual yet polished style and his frequent reference to sex. His controversial themes, blunt language, and political incorrectness have earned him a reputation as ￯﾿ﾽAmerica￯﾿ﾽs least beloved poet.￯﾿ﾽ

At the same time, his work has been published in some of the nation￯﾿ﾽs best alternative poetry magazines, including Pearl, Chiron Review, The Plastic Tower,

and IMPish IMPETUS EROTIC-AHHH.

If you like your poetry served full-strength￯﾿ﾽwith real speech, dramatic situations, and a no-holds-barred approach￯﾿ﾽDaly is the poet you￯﾿ﾽve been waiting for.

About the Author

Brian Daly was born on Long Island in 1952 and grew up there and in Central Massachusetts. He won a scholarship to Dartmouth, where he pledged Sigma Alpha Epsilon and lived in the frat house across from Baker Library. At Dartmouth, he met Richard Eberhart and Allen Ginsberg, won the Lockwood Prize in writing, but finished near the bottom of his class. ￯﾿ﾽThank God for the hockey players!￯﾿ﾽ he says. After moving to Nashville in 1981, he bought a birthday card for a friend and taped a poem to the inside. The poem was ￯﾿ﾽThirty-Gurdy,￯﾿ﾽ which became the first poem in Lesbian Trapped in a Man￯﾿ﾽs Body. Daly finished the first draft of Lesbian in 1987 with a series of poems about the birth of his son. Then he edited the collection￯﾿ﾽhis first￯﾿ﾽwith help from the Dreadfulites, a Nashville poetry circle he joined in 1995. Says Dreadfulites founder C Ra McGuirt, ￯﾿ﾽGood poetry is primarily concerned with the dance of words. It avoids intentional obtuseness, moral posturing, emotional caterwauling, and blatant self-aggrandizement.￯﾿ﾽ Asked how he prepared his book for publication, Daly says, ￯﾿ﾽI took out everything that sounded like poetry.

SYNOPSIS

It￯﾿ﾽs poetry￯﾿ﾽs answer to Temptation Island.

Reality-based programming comes to free verse in Lesbian Trapped in a Man￯﾿ﾽs Body , the rip-roarin￯﾿ﾽ story of a Yankee songwriter seeking his fortune in Nashville. In this debut collection, Dartmouth grad Brian Daly (Pearl, Chiron Review) fights to survive interracial lust, betrayal, schoolgirl crushes, heavy drinking, gay love, kinky chicks, and your cheatin￯﾿ﾽ heart.

Immensely readable, raw, funny, and real, it￯﾿ﾽs a unique poetry book￯﾿ﾽnot boring. Sick of the bland poetry that￯﾿ﾽs been shoved down your throat since kindergarten?