Daniel Fernandez's
FLIGHT NUMBERS

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Pivot Press, 2004
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With elegant grace, Daniel Fernandez writes narrative poems, sonnets, sestinas, and lyrics, many about love and nature.  Steeped in the musical traditions of poetry, his ear is fine-tuned.  Drawn to the classics for his allusions and metaphors, his writing expresses a longing for order, reason, beauty, and integrity.  His images are honed and polished like precious gems set in a solid framework of traditional forms he resourcefully makes his own.  “The New Funambulist,” his ars poetica, is a testament to the immense resourcefulness and adaptability of his poetry to contain an ever-changing world.  “No more at war with new technology nor the discordant mimic of machines” but “Smooth as an escalator’s rising curve” and “Triumphant as a mocking bird on a wire/Ever retuning his ecstatic lyre.”  He’s written how the tantalizing erotica of pop culture is burning us “to enter Plato’s cave-like realm/Where in the dark unreels the unreal film.”  His writing expresses a spiritual quest.
           —Gayl Teller,      author of One Small Kindness .

Flight Numbers is the work of a rich and skeptical mind.  Among its recurring themes are history, classical mythology, contemporary urban life, and nature.  In “Columbus’s Eclipse,” a compelling dramatic monologue in blank verse, Fernandez recounts a crucial episode in one of Columbus’s expeditions to the New World.  In “The Judgment of Paris,” “Hera’s Revenge,” and “Ode to Venus,” he interprets mythological figures as symbols of forces within the human psyche, a Jungian insight.  When reading poems like “Civilization and Times Square,” “Bronx Bus,” “July the Fourth,” and “1984,” one detects the poet’s alliance with T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell in their indictment of our materialistic, technological society.  Fernandez seeks consolation in nature, as in “Autumn Fragments,” “Fragile Objects,” and “The Butterfly Trees.”  The author writes in a variety of metrical forms, and employs innovative rhyme schemes.  Flight Numbers is a rewarding book, an intrepid artist’s attempt to lend artistic form to the chaos of experience.
                        —Alfred Dorn

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