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"Darren C. Demaree's collection Nude Male with Echo examines and challenges male vanity, power, and expectation. While exploring the place of his gender in this world, Demaree's attempt to expand upon the expectations of ""what makes a man"", while drilling down into the artistic framework provided by the body and aging provides a new landscape for these modern questions. Nude Male with Echo, Demaree's thirteenth full-length collection, utilizes fresh language, energy, and abstraction to confront the typical arcs of his gender's role in society. These poems drag and batter ""maleness"" into what it is, a failing qualifier, and leaves us with the hope that it can be much more that what it has been in the past."

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"Demaree gives us the truth. There are poems you may love, poems you may hate, and poems that may be too much for you to swallow. But isn't that what the truth is? Everything you want, but also everything you don't. He doesn't spare our feelings and willingly shares his thoughts alongside the truth.--Kellyn Berzabal of Petrichor on ""Lady, You Shot Me"" Like any spiritual test worth its salt, this book offers more questions than answers. There is a kind of emptiness at the periphery of each sequence that allows the reader's mind to go off into countless moral and allegorical questions like these; the edges of the cave truly contain only what you take with you. For these reasons, we recommend this challenging and complex work without reservation. Celebrate it with great care. --Michael Young of Rust + Moth on ""Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly"" Demaree puts the reader in the driver's seat of emotional intuitiveness. He grasps to understand the world in a linguisticism bent enough beyond literal to become poetic without inducing catatonia as some poets might. This, alongside his residual body of work, is another instance of Demaree raising his voice (yet somehow calmly, without abrasion) above the crowd to share something worthwhile. It is upon us, as readers, to cherish such lyricism when it comes along. -- Michael Prihoda of After the Pause on ""Not for Art nor Prayer"""

Demaree gives us the truth. There are poems you may love, poems you may hate, and poems that may be too much for you to swallow. But isn't that what the truth is? Everything you want, but also everything you don't. He doesn't spare our feelings and willingly shares his thoughts alongside the truth.--Kellyn Berzabal of Petrichor on Lady, You Shot Me Like any spiritual test worth its salt, this book offers more questions than answers. There is a kind of emptiness at the periphery of each sequence that allows the reader's mind to go off into countless moral and allegorical questions like these; the edges of the cave truly contain only what you take with you. For these reasons, we recommend this challenging and complex work without reservation. Celebrate it with great care. --Michael Young of Rust + Moth on Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly Demaree puts the reader in the driver's seat of emotional intuitiveness. He grasps to understand the world in a linguisticism bent enough beyond literal to become poetic without inducing catatonia as some poets might. This, alongside his residual body of work, is another instance of Demaree raising his voice (yet somehow calmly, without abrasion) above the crowd to share something worthwhile. It is upon us, as readers, to cherish such lyricism when it comes along. -- Michael Prihoda of After the Pause on Not for Art nor Prayer

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"DARREN C. DEMAREE is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children. ""Lady, You Shot Me"" is his tenth collection of poetry."

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