Satan is a Mathematician

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 Keith Allen Daniels

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cover art by Rodger Gerberding

Finalist, 1999 Writer's Digest National Book Award for Poetry; ISBN 0-9631203-6-0, 168 pp., $12.95, quality trade paperback

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C. P. Snow Has Melted and Is All Wet • Return of the Haruspex • In Coldhouse • Bookmarks in The King in Yellow • Einstein’s Brain • Numbers of the Beast • On the Rag • Vug • Sestina for the Silver One • The Triboelectric Torture of Cats • Dead Cow of the Sierras • Onion Man • Ayahuasquero • Mucustodians • Pelagia • Xobanhaltun • Tiki • Rope • My Eyes, My Eyes are Melting • Piranha Raptors • At the Pet Shop • Legacy of the Ooligarchs • A Groundbreaking Event • Round Trip • The Unhauntable Man • Tubing on the Ichetucknee River • The Poetasters’ Cafι • Poison Ivy Makes Terrible Incense • A Talon for Music • Strings • Flashback in Traffic • The Missed Millennium • Two Mornings in a Day • Twins • Metalangelo, the Billion Dollar Schizophrenic • Tektite Gambit • Doing Harmaline • Once More, With Feeling • Sciomancy Nights • Reign, Forest! • Loopy is the Inner Ear • On the Wave-Particle Duality of Ghosts • Ghosts in a Temblor • \Virgule Reality\ • Chaulmoogra Mantra • Ancient Dogs • It’s All in Your Head • Bight of Sonic Blasters • The Last Days of the Demiurge • Gray Dorian • Anamnesis • Satan is a Mathematician • Agonoch and Old Bones • Camp Upas • Carnomancy for Two • The Discourse of the Stones • Dzibilchaltun • Essence of Poet • Eyes in Orbit • Hemogoblin Blues • I’m Back! • Judgement Day • Memorial • A Pickup in San Francisco • The Quiet One • Screed • Seals • Zed • Twist • The Death of NASA? • Eugenica • Morning of a Faun • Auralincubi • Too Late the Ootheca • The Last Halloween of Gaston de Hume • The Stoning • The Voice of the Tortoise • Dustbusters • Vampire Poem • Thana Topless • The Packing of Tufts • Fragments of a Shattered Glass Werewolf Poem • H. P. Lovecraft Meets the Three Stooges • Crater Lake • Triplets for Thomas Wiloch • Augury • Someday a Prince Will Come • Lithic • Sylphs • Shoemaker-Levy 9 • Leap to Infinity • The Time Emitter • Earth • Dachau Jumped Over the Moon • Advertising in the Mutant Rain Forest • Coffee Breaks... • The Archaic Smile • Porifera • The Houri and the Hoplites • demented • Plight of the Auspex • God’s Breath • Unsafe Alien Sex • There Will Come Soft Things • Dunsany’s Game • Iniquitons • Cthulhu Calls Collect • The Frog Problem • Iggy Guards Her Secrets • Curse of the Mathematician’s Wife • The Man Who Was Sing Sing • Anemophilous • Angels of the Half-Spans • The Scurvied