Danny Shot's poems are both epic and exquisitely personal - there are echoes of Whitman in the vast scope of his work, in the music and the transcendence, in the breathtaking glory he finds in the deceptively diurnal; of O'Hara, in his self-effacement and intimate humor; of Yeats in the breadth of his unique language which embraces the spiritual nature of his earthly environment. But his poetry is most assuredly his own, with deft twists of wit quickly swirling into stunning, profound truths. The Palisades, the Mets, Hoboken's late beloved Maxwell's - all are celestial in Danny Shot's world, and he continually surprises with epiphanic lines that pierce the heart, and swiftly, miraculously, we see ourselves.