Dani Millar Biography
Dani André Valerius Millar is an Irish poet, novelist and photographer. His poetry covers many topics, such as teenage angst, love, city life and the search of identity. He has called himself “a gay, edgy T.S Eliot, ” He cites the poets, T.S Eliot and Frank O’Hara, the writers James Joyce, Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Perec as his main influences. Millar thinks of himself as a literary iconoclast, saying “I am the death and rebirth of literature itself.” He gave himself the middle name ‘Valerius’ after the Ancient Roman poet of the same name. He is currently working on his first novel, which is currently untitled. It aims to be “the 21st century Ulysses but with lots of internet culture, teenage angst and A LOT of satire.” He has a boyfriend named Devin.
To Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
The blues buzz and the reds rumble,
the yellows yell and the greens growl.
...
In raspberry rain
and in mulberry midnight,
and in strawberry sunset.
I sit, soft as a marshmallow,
...
Genius siala, a modest master
of music and song, he is robed
in royal blue. Air is ample.
He needs to rest. Maybe
...
The silver satin cloth sat in the casket
beneath the body.
The casket was open, like a mouth
sharing a shocking secret.
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