Divination Machine

by F. Daniel Rzicznek

Poetry. "F. Daniel Rzicznek is a shapeshifter of poets--sometimes a watchful heron, sometimes a wheeling hawk, sometimes a gliding owl, and always an exquisitely observant crow. Poetry, he says, is a paranormal event. DIVINATION MACHINE makes the case"--Djelloul Marbrook. "We have confessional poets, who write about themselves; nature poets, who write about place; experimental poets, who write about language. And we have F. Daniel Rzicznek, who finds 'many centers to the world,' whose DIVINATION MACHINE resists simplification into any one category. Rzicznek is a poet for whom 'Everything / is a piece of the vision'"--H. L. Hix.

Genres: Poetry

86 pages

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

F. Daniel Rzicznek is the author of three poetry collections, Settlers (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2018), Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2009) and Neck of the World (Utah State University Press, 2007), as well as four chapbooks: Live Feeds (Epiphany, 2015), Nag Champa in the Rain (Orange Monkey Publishing, 2014), Vine River Hermitage (Cooper Dillon Books, 2011), and Cloud Tablets (Kent State University Press, 2006). His work has appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, West Branch, Orion, and many other venues. Also coeditor (with Gary L. McDowell) of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010), Rzicznek teaches writing at Bowling Green State University.