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Author Daniel P Quinn Plans Book Tour



Planning is underway for a new series of book signings and appearances by Daniel P. Quinn.



Over the summer, Mr. Quinn appeared at the Bowery Cafe in NYC, Landmark Books, Spring Lake, NJ, Montclair, the Irish Arts Center in NYC and the Carnegie Room of the Belleville Library. Forthcoming appearances include Washington, DC, Dublin, Ireland and Italy as well in 2005 and 2006. Other appearances can be scheduled by contacting ArtsPRunlimited @ aol.com or through www.AuthorHouse.com.



Reviews and important feature articles about "Organized Labor" have already appeared in The Bergen Record, The Coast Star, The Italian Voice, The Village Voice as a literary selection of the week when Mr. Quinn's work was heard at the Bowery Cafe and The Italian Tribune.



His probing interview by Bonnie Grice on NPR would also be heard at all book signings as part of the program from WLIU-FM, Southampton, NY.



Some important abbreviated reviews follow:



1) Davidson Garrett, Union Member of 3 unions, July 21, 2005, *****

"Organized Labor" (AuthorHouse 2004) by Daniel P. Quinn is a wonderful book of poems. His language is very specific and his images powerful. There are poems that evoke old New York and also poems that address recent issues we face today in the world since 9/11. Most of all the poems capture the daily struggle of a man who is coming to terms with who he is by his sensitive observations of past and present influences and by the humor of everyday life.



2) David Messineo Publisher of Sensations magazine,****

"Organized Labor" is an ambitious first collection by Daniel P. Quinn, which covers four generations of American and family history, from 1887 to the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001. The book's title has multiple allusions: from poems that deal with the organized labor movement in America (most notably, the 1913 strike of 20,000 Paterson silk workers at Botto House in Haledon, NJ). Part I contains 17 poems of personal reflection from 1977 to 1998, including poems about Edgar Allan Poe and his Bronx cottage ("Poetry in Transformation"); soul-draining office work ("x-mas greetings on oppression!"); opera ("Omaggio"); and art and politics in the Reagan years ("re: public rhetoric"), including these lines: Remember: magic tricks & cowboys,/the Wild West, riding off into the sunset/while joking about RR. You can hear the silence of Art. And look at the price tags for Van Gogh, Now, that he's art & dead. "Fill in the b ank" and "Fragments" capture "a solitary voice against the ocean" -- often the feeling of those who make a career out of creating art, in contrast to those who make a career out of making money: "NY Trilogy III" evokes the spirit of Stephane Mallarme in its use of text placement as a visual element, creating a moving poem on the loss of the Twin Towers while elevating the work to that of a visual art piece.



Book production is nicely done, from the cover design and drawing of hands by Thomas Micchelli to the feel of the paper within. All in all, "Organized Labor" is a labor of love to family, art, and history: an admirable first book.



Mr. Quinn's next book, "Exits and Entrances," is due out in January 2006. The book will also be published AuthorHouse. For more information, please contact Mr. Quinn at 973-290-2929.






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