The Lost Boys

"Sometimes I amuse myself by trying to characterize Daniel Groves's poems. If Samuel Beckett wanted to write like Alexander Pope, but with the tiniest dash of Odgen Nash...If Byron had a child with Jorge Luis Borges, and that child had studied with both James Merrill and Groucho Marx...I give up. Daniel Groves is a poet like no one else. He's one of the most inventive rhymers since Byron, but rhyme is merely one thing he does superlatively. What about those complex, self-interrogating sentences, rich with word play, puns, and puns inside puns---all to purposes as serious as art itself---and life? The Lost Boys is a book any reader of contemporary poetry will have to contend with from now on."---Andrew Hudgins, Author of American Rendering: New and Selected Poems --Book Jacket.