Either, Orpheus

"Dan Disney's highly original either, Orpheus remakes the villanelle. The'sound-swarms' in this contemporary 'orphic' work riff laterally on receivedpoetic and philosophical ideas and incorporate fascinating shreds of thinkingand saying. Rainer Maria Rilke and Sren Kierkegaard are the presidingspirits in the volume, and Disney is also in discussion about divergent waysof seeing and understanding with writers from all over the globe. Thisinventive poetry explores culture, authenticity and translation, and quizzesthe lyric modes of apostrophe and song." - Paul Hetherington

"Dan Disney's either, Orpheus arrives with the force of a tropical weatherevent to deliver a series of pulsating shocks to the languages of everydaylife. Neither strictly poetic nor purely philosophical, these deliriouslypedagogical poems summon Rilke, Levertov, Ashbery, Sartre, Kierkegaard,Cage and multitudinous others to reconsider what we thought we knew ofauthorship, form, religion, phenomenology and love. For Disney, the properresponse to Bloom's anxiety of influence is 'a godless both/and' in which aseries of 'elegiac anthroposcenes' transforms the labyrinth of solitude intothe kinds of worlds that we 'non-residents' might want to inhabit. Hospitable,demanding, festive and fearless, either, Orpheus passes through 'wherepreviously it was not evident that anyone could find a passage".  - Fiona Hile