Daniels, Keith Allen
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1956-2001) US poet, author and Small Press publisher whose first poem, "Denouement", appeared in Logos in 1974, and who published frequently and variously until his premature death, much of this work appearing in Anamnesis Press, which he founded in 1990, and thorough which he also published work by James Blish, Arthur C Clarke, Lord Dunsany and Joe Haldeman [see Checklist below]. His poetry – assembled in volumes like What Rough Book: Dark Poems and Light (coll 1992 chap; vt Dyscrasias: Selected Poems 1995 chap), Satan Is a Mathematician: Poems of the Weird, Surreal, and Fantastic (coll 1998 chap) and Shimmarie and Other Poems (coll 2000 chap) – is conservative, technically sophisticated, often comical; the range of topics runs a gamut from metaphorical conceits to literal sf. [JC]
Keith Allen Daniels
born Rantoul, Illinois: 4 June 1956
died Ridgecrest, California: 18 December 2001
works (selected)
- What Rough Book: Dark Poems and Light (Clute, Texas: Anamnesis Press, 1992) [poetry: coll: pb/]
- Dyscrasias: Selected Poems (San Francisco, California: Anamnesis Press, 1995) [poetry: coll: chap: vt of the above: pb/]
- Loopy Is the Inner Ear (San Francisco, California: Anamnesis Press/Quick Glance Press, 1993) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/]
- Notes from the Antipodes (San Francisco, California: Anamnesis Press, 1997) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/]
- Satan Is a Mathematician: Poems of the Weird, Surreal, and Fantastic (Palo Alto, California: Anamnesis Press, 1998) [poetry: coll: pb/Rodger Gerberding]
- I Think, Therefore Iamb (Ridgecrest, California: Anamnesis Press, 1999) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/]
- Haiku by Unohu (Ridgecrest, California: Anamnesis Press, 2000) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/]
- Shimmarie and Other Poems (Ridgecrest, California: Anamnesis Press, 2000) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/]
works as editor
- Arthur C Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence (San Francisco, California: Anamnesis Press, 1998) [nonfiction/letters: anth: Arthur C Clarke: Lord Dunsany: pb/Toni Luna Montealegre]
- The Weird Sonneteers (Ridgecrest, California: Anamnesis Press, 2000) [poetry: anth: pb/]
- 2001 A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology (Ridgecrest, California: Anamnesis Press, 2001) [poetry: anth: pb/Toni Luna Daniels]
works as publisher
- James Blish. With All of Love: Selected Poems by James Blish (San Francisco, California: Anamnesis Press, 1995) [poetry: coll: chap: hb/]
- Joe Haldeman. Saul's Death & Other Poems (San Francisco, California: Anamnesis Press, 1997) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/Keith Allen Daniels]
- Arthur C Clarke and Lord Dunsany. Arthur C Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence (Palo Alto, California: Anamnesis Press, 1998) [anth: letters: pb/Toni Luna Montealegre]
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