There have been many descriptions of Seven-Star Bird and for good reason as its subtle nuances elicit different responses from everybody that reads it. The book is a real catalogue of stories and memories. The book borrows a quote from one of the great classical poets of all time Ovid, famous for the Metamorphoses which dealt with all the changes experienced in a series of different stories.

The mythical element to these stories is kept by Daniel including the refrain of let the river horses run as they sweep across the plains removing all traces of what was there before. Or perhaps better put by Bill Knott:

These poems feel long pondered over, deep sought for. The more I read them, the more I felt in awe of them. Their wisdom is more than promise, a gift not owned, but forever theirs. Forever ours? If we as readers are attentive to the hand-shredding truth-or is it an open-handedness of spirit-that fills these poems. David Daniel is a poet one can believe in, devout to both his affirmations and his doubts. Seven-Star Bird is an auspicious debut.

Carl Phillips also comments:

Fusing history, folk wisdom, ancient religious thought, and a decidedly contemporary sense of the ironic, the poems of Seven-Star Bird are poems of homecoming and nowhere-a-home, of spiritual quest and of the earthly struggle to survive as a people and as a self. Daniel nimbly clocks and captures for us 'the terrible speed of beauty born and passing.

David Daniel has a style and a presence in his poetry that bring thoughts to the surface with every theme related and resonating with the reader. His voice is unique and lyrical in the way he brings the mythical forces through the words.