Books by Daniel Tiffany

Some would call Neptune Park a graphic novel-minus the pictures. Mumblecore, infidel pamphlet, lazy cento, its archive harbors a voice that sounds real enough-a verbal tranny-culled from the unhoused parley of shame (and its sisters), suburban squats, queer idylls, and teenage millionaires.

Poetry has long been regarded as the least accessible of literary genres. But how much does the obscurity that confounds the reader of a poem differ from, say, the slang or patois that captivates listeners of hip-hop? This book examines the shared incomprehensibilities of poetry and slang.

Focusing on the necrophilic dimension of Pound's poetry and the inflections of materiality enabled by the modernist image, Tiffany finds a continuum between Decadent practice and the avant-garde, between the image's prehistory and its political afterlife, between the "corpse language" of Victorian poetry and a conception of the "radioactive" image