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"What is x? It is a revelation to read. This poet is here to guide us through the places we will go. I will follow him. So should you."--Dorothea Lasky "Dan Chelotti's x is a first book, but one that has the bracing clarity of old souls like Jack Gilbert, James Tate, Mary Ruefle and Yannis Ritsos, along with the sensitivities and bravery of a young poet. The thoughts in the poems leap gracefully, and associate with a new but always perceivable, never alienating logic. These poems take on our troubles, as well as our task: to make sense of without reducing the world."--Matthew Zapruder "O Madonna mia! This poetry it makes me to laugh! Dan Chelotti, I heart you!"--Gary Shteyngart "Dan Chelotti's poems spin and jump through fire landing on their feet, but wait, whose feet are they, really? They are magnificent contraptions with a heart of steel. They move me because they are real. I never know how they will turn out, and this is what keeps me reading. He's a poet with grace and beauty in his duffle bag, on his way to the front."--James Tate "Gripping and surprising... Chelotti has gotten a remarkable start."--Publishers Weekly "Funny and sometimes mysterious...Pavarotti and cheap plastic pumpkins are all part of Chelotti's poetic stew."--Shelf Awareness "X is delightful in its weirdness, surprisingly heartbreaking in its compassion"--Grantland "Dan Chelotti offers up verse in equal measures heartfelt and wry, almost always expressed in admirably straightforward language." --Burlesque Press