Castaways in Time: The After Cilmeri Series

I Am the Phoenix is Daniel Ott's first collection of poetry. Although radically productive, Ott is also a perfectionist, so while writing these poems took a mere matter of months, tweaking the collection to his satisfaction took quite longer. With I Am the Phoenix, Ott chimes in with his forty-eight cents on a variety of topics, including life, beauty, naïvete, freedom, and suicide. Ott also poeticizes certain historical events in this collection, including the suicide of actress Peg Entwistle, and how poet Allen Ginsberg and comedian Lenny Bruce changed America forever simply by speaking their minds. Ott invites all who purchase this book into a world rife with depth, darkness, and profundity, and urges readers to remember that "the endlessnesses are possibilities."