This book is a new revising of the confessional. It’s about having to grow up, about those feelings we want to get back to, the people we want to get back, the people we’ve had to let go. Each poem in daryl hall is my boyfriend takes its title from a line of a Hall & Oates song. The poems here are not “about” Hall and Oates songs or what they “mean,” but rather what is triggered when listening to or thinking about the music, those feelings, experiences, and memories, that specific nostalgia attached only to the sort of pop music Hall and Oates created.