Look and Listen

Biography

D. M. Guilfoyle currently resides in upstate New York. Since graduating from the creative writing program at Lemoyne College, Mr. Guilfoyle has compiled a vast portfolio, including examples from novels, poems, short stories, screenplays, and songs. According to Jeffrey A. Carver, as a writer, you must, “Write from the soul, not from some notion of what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle: the soul is eternal.” Although you may see D. M.’s literary influences in his writing, such as Wordsworth’s and Keats’s Romanticism, Yeats’ pride in his heritage, and Ginsberg and Kerouac’s daring authority as The Beat Generation and Jazz, he writes only for himself. He has already accomplished a feat that few writers have: he has found his voice, a voice that is modernized with 21st Century experiences while paying homage to the literary icons that shaped his essence. In the Wallflower Girl, D.M. describes his character, Emily’s attempts to cope with the passage from girl to woman. The extended metaphor of a girl’s transformation into womanhood exemplifies the ageless conundrum, but never lets the reader forget that it is Emily, it is her battle and it is everyone else’s. “Sometimes I just want to scream…”, D.M.’s first line in Drinking and Driving With Friends, introduces us to his main character, Harry. Harry, a man who has created a fantasy of his best friend Caitlyn, as his ideal lover. Harry does what so many of us have, idealized someone, pulling out all the positives, while blinding themselves to the negatives and the truth. Does he scream because of unrequited love or the realization that he as fooled himself all along? These are only two examples of D.M.’s writing. My descriptions do not give the proper credit to the creativity and ambition that he has put to paper.

Inspiration

Jack Kerouac, Ed Burns, John Keats, Emerson, Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Handey and Frank Herbert.