American Barricade - Softcover

Poetry. "AMERICAN BARRICADE is a beautifully constructed and powerful lyric narrative that's equal parts dysfunctional fairy tale and family tragicomedy. Schoonebeek offers a complex meditation on the imagination's capacity to make up for reality's privations and the psyche's related drive to 'build from its rubble'—the latter seeming, in Schoonebeek's hands, like a compulsion to recreate the very conditions the psyche has struggled to escape from. Frequently disturbing, almost always darkly comical, and ultimately heartbreaking, AMERICAN BARRICADE is a bold, ambitious, unforgettable debut from one of our most exciting young poets."—Timothy Donnelly

Danniel Schoonebeek's first book of poems, AMERICAN BARRICADE, was published by YesYes Books in 2014. In 2015, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and his second book of poems, Trebuchet, was selected as a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series and will be published by University of Georgia Press.

Recent work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Fence, Tin House, and elsewhere. A recipient of awards and honors from Poets House, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and Oregon State University, he hosts the Hatchet Job reading series in Brooklyn and edits the PEN Poetry Series.