The first poem in David Siller's debut collection announces in no uncertain terms what the book will not be. The resulting poems "sneak unseen into/the hearts and minds of those you seek to love or repair." I can think of no better reason to read this book. -Richard Jeffrey Newman, author of T'shuvah

In ...& Other Improprieties, David Siller delivers a model of worship that attends not to the skies above but every quotidian detail of our days. Fittingly, Siller argues that poetry itself is a prayer we would all do well to "throw at the single eye of a malicious giant." -Matt Pasca, author of Raven Wire and A Thousand Doors

Those of us who love poetry, think poetry, live poetry, know poems have extraordinary abilities. In ...& Other Improprieties, David Siller directly asserts this in the appropriately titled This Poem has Superpowers. I encourage you to acquire your own copy of ...& Other Improprieties to experience its many superpowers. -Terry Jude Miller, author of What If I Find Only Moonlight? and The Drawn Cat's Dream, winner of the 2018 Catherine Case Lubbe Manuscript Prize

From the purview of his adopted New York, David Siller, in his ...& Other Improprieties, has constructed an poetic Versailles, drawing richly on a beloved second language, French. These poems fly the reader on an itinerary of wonder and surprise. Their "white caps swirl against the ragged coastline of questions." -Henry Sussman, author of Screen Memories and Polaroids of Turbulence