Daniel C. Remein appeared in Issues 32 and 36 with poems that move between medieval literature, technological language, pedagogy, bodily desire, political imagination, and experimental syntax.
Daniel C. Remein in the historical archive
Issue 32 contributor note records Remein’s poems in Sidebrow and forthcoming in Sentence 6, alongside his work on teaching and literary research in Pittsburgh. By Issue 36, the original publication placed him in Brooklyn, pursuing a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature at NYU and editing Whiskey & Fox.
exergue and technological history
The Issue 36 poem exergue moves through rockets, Soviet women, vacuum tubes, crushed limestone, revolutionary slogans, type foundries, pedagogy, and the language of launch. Technical vocabulary enters intimate and political speech, giving the poem a layered sense of historical machinery.
letter to julian of norwich about last night’s visitors
The Issue 32 poem addresses Julian of Norwich while drawing Chaucer, church imagery, desire, food, bodily humors, faith, and contemporary speech into one restless scene. Medieval reference operates as an active vocabulary inside a present-tense encounter.
Pedagogy, desire, and form
Both poems turn instruction into poetic material. Class language, reading, doctrine, citation, and explanation repeatedly meet sensual imagery and abrupt tonal shifts. The poems make intellectual history feel embodied, unstable, and socially charged.
Sound, syntax, and pressure
Remein’s long lines and enjambed clauses accumulate through repetition, interruption, and dense consonant movement. Syntax keeps extending beyond expected stopping points, allowing historical reference and contemporary idiom to occupy the same verbal current.
Further reading
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