Daniel Klawitter

These poems display a masterful and contemporary twist on a beloved poetic tradition that carefully employs the tools of meter, rhyme, and rhythm. Readers will find these poems to be both accessible and thought provoking. It is rare to encounter a poet capable of such range in tone and subject matter: from the humorous to the tragic, the divine to the devilish, the author expertly blurs the lines between our notions of the sacred and the secular.

These poems display a masterful and contemporary twist on a beloved poetic tradition that carefully employs the tools of meter, rhyme, and rhythm. Readers will find these poems to be both accessible and thought provoking. It is rare to encounter a poet capable of such range in tone and subject matter: from the humorous to the tragic, the divine to the devilish, the author expertly blurs the lines between our notions of the sacred and the secular.

Poet Daniel Klawitter turns his well-trained eye toward Holy Scripture in this entertaining and thought-provoking poetry chapbook riffing off of Bible verses. Rich in both pathos and humor, these non-dogmatic poems wrestle with issues of ageing, homophobia, marriage, environmental destruction, and the naked disciple in the Gospel of Mark (among many other topics). Klawitter (who was an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church for over a decade and a recipient of the Ronald E. Sleeth preaching award) has been described by author David J. Rothman as "a sly poet capable of great sweetness and formal grace," and those traits are on full display in this delightful collection that blurs the categories between the sacred and the secular.

Quiet Insurrections is a joyous, playful romp of a book-a rare and memorable treat. Through fresh and often funny twists on both free and formal verse, Daniel Klawitter serves up a juicy cornucopia of superb sound, subtle spirituality, and refreshing silliness. The poet's distinctive blend of both deep wisdom and hilarious insight linger in every delicious, well-crafted line. "Read on and be amazed..." he says-and we are. Joy Roulier Sawyer, author of Tongues of Men and Angels Klawitter's outlook, at once revolutionary and theological, contains hope that, yes, we can improve our lot. It is how he can write a poem in dedication to the El Salvador Martyrs but still embrace a "foolosophy" that delights in the wonders of nature like a latter-day Saint Francis. Karl Wolfe, The Driftless Area Review Klawitter's delight in the sounds of words and in indulging his quirky imagination is infectious. He clearly had a good time writing the poems in Quiet Insurrections, and his readers will have a good time reading them. But Klawitter's sense of play is not only humorous. "A Flock Made Flesh" and "At the Franciscan Retreat Center, Colorado Springs," for instance, employ startling metaphysical conceits. There are poems here to draw the reader in to discover, in Klawitter's words, "the poem behind the poem." Luke Stromberg, Assistant Director of the West Chester University Poetry Conference

After revising known representations of the group of Euclidean displacements Daniel Klawitter gives a comprehensive introduction into Clifford algebras. The Clifford algebra calculus is used to construct new models that allow descriptions of the group of projective transformations and inversions with respect to hyperquadrics. Afterwards, chain geometries over Clifford algebras and their subchain geometries are examined. The author applies this theory and the developed methods to the homogeneous Clifford algebra model corresponding to Euclidean geometry. Moreover, kinematic mappings for special Cayley-Klein geometries are developed. These mappings allow a description of existing kinematic mappings in a unifying framework.