Inspired by such thinkers as Deleuze, Badiou, and Agamben and such subjects as mathematical paradox and scientific method, Daniel Rounds's debut, SOME DISTANT LATERAL PRESENT, is poetry as intellectual, emotional, and phenomenological argument. These are poems that challenge the reader even as they challenge what poetry does, what it can do, even what it is willing to address as a form.

  • Daniel Rounds wearing sunglasses and hat
    Dominique Williams
  • Daniel Rounds is a poet, activist, and applied sociologist based in Sacramento, California. After pursuing studies in social theory, political economy, and social movements at the political science and sociology graduate programs at UCLA, he left the academy to work for organized labor. During his career he has worked for various environmental, social justice, and labor organizations as well as in the legislative and executive branches of California state government. His previous books eros zero (2017) and some distant lateral present (2014) were also published by Ad Lumen Press.