"The Road to Mythville" is a collection of poems on the apocalyptic mythos of late-century America, drawing from McDaniel's decade-long sojourn across the nation as a journalist and Jack Kerouac-style poet, from the Southwestern deserts, to the Colorado Rockies, Northern California, New England and back again. A protege of the late Edward Abbey, McDaniel's poetry explores everything from Major League Baseball to environmental catastrophe. Influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon and such poets as John Berryman, Robert Lowell and W.B. Yeats, this rich collection details the human face of a modern, post-punk Luddite.

Douglas McDaniel is a writer, editor and self-publisher who shares his time in Boston, Scottsdale and Telluride, Colorado, the latter of which is where most of these poems were written. A graduate of the University of Arizona, he’s edited newspapers and magazines for the past 20 years. His poetry has been published in a number of baseball literary journals, as well as such Web sites TroikaMagazine.com. Several poems can also be found in an anthology, “Baseball and The Literary Life”, put out by Birch Brook Press, New York. www.mythville.org.