Man is the King of Man, and his crown lies not atop his head, but within it. No Crown But the Skull, Daniel Ott's first book of haiku and senryu, is a celebration and condemnation of the world in which we live, and of the people and things with which we live. It centers on the human experience, and one human's experience with the coalmine-covered goldmine that is life. Ott's observations are terse in words, but loquacious in the thoughts he hopes they'll inspire. From the absolute everythings, these are the almost anythings. Daniel Ott was born in Columbus, Indiana, in 1992. He lives in Shelbyville, where he wrote his first collection of poetry, I Am the Phoenix, and where he is currently hard at work on his third.