Show and Tell(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems (The University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series) by JimDaniels Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-18584-8, ISBN: 0-299-18584-2
""Where I'm at: Factory Education," "Midnight Date," "Work Boots: Still Life," "Soo
Locks," "Work Song: Blues for Me, Blues for Jeannie," and "Work Song: Factory
Musical," from Punching Out, by Jim Daniels, ® 1990. Reprinted by permission of
..."
Places/Everyone(1st Edition) (Brittingham Prize in Poetry) by JimDaniels, Gerald Stern Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1985 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-10354-5, ISBN: 0-299-10354-4
" Jim Daniels, in his first book of poems, draws upon his experiences in living and working in his native Detroit to present a start, realistic picture of urban, blue-collar life. Daniels, his brothers, his father, and his grandfather have all worked in the auto industry, and that background seeps into nearly all these poems. The first of the book’s three sections sketches out this background, then moves into a neighborhood full o ..."
Rowing Inland (Made in Michigan Writers Series) by JimDaniels Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2017 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-4218-3, ISBN: 0-8143-4218-3
""Rowing Inland," Jim Daniels's fifteenth book of poetry is a time machine that takes the reader back to the Metro Detroit of his youth and then accelerates toward the future. With humor and empathy, the author looks at his own family's challenges and those of the surrounding community where the legacy handed down from generation to generation is one of survival. The economic hits that this community has to endure create both an uncertai ..."
Birth Marks (American Poets Continuum) by JimDaniels Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2013 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-938160-16-5, ISBN: 1-938160-16-9
"A poet of the working-class and city streets, Jim Daniels's fourteenth poetry collection travels from Detroit to Ohio to Pittsburgh, from one post-industrial city to another, across jobs and generations. Daniels focuses on the urban landscape and its effects on its inhabitants as they struggle to establish community on streets hissing with distrust and random violence. Out here, silence scrapes its knuckles in an attempt at prayer. Jim ..."
RESPECT(1st Edition) The Poetry of Detroit Music by JimDaniels, M. L. Liebler Paperback, 362 Pages, Published 2019 by Michigan State University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61186-336-9, ISBN: 1-61186-336-8
"While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of poems and lyrics covers numerous genres including jazz, blues, doo-wop, Motown, classic rock, punk, hip-hop, and techno. Detroit artists have forged the paths in many of these genres, producing waves of creative energy that continue to reverberate across the country and around the world. While ..."
"Letters to America features the work of poets who have had the courage to write about race with honesty and passion. Speakign from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Indian, Hispanic, and white culture, their diverse voices unite in a dialogue of poems which acknowledge and celebrate our differences while exploring America's shameful history of racial intolerance. The poets in this anthology include Gwendolyn Brook ..."
"In this wide-ranging collection, Jim Daniels moves from Detroit to Pittsburgh, from childhood to parenthood, meditating on memory and loss, on what we try to dispose of in our own personal landfills, and what we are confronted with in the present moments of our daily lives. He riffs on popular music in the "Esperanto" poems, trying to capture what is universal about music, apart from language, using the only thing at his disposal--langu ..."
Punching Out(Reprint) by JimDaniels Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1990 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2191-1, ISBN: 0-8143-2191-7
"Daniels' second book of poetry takes readers inside an auto factory with Digger, a young man whose initial reaction of shock and dismay at the difficult working conditions prompts him to find ways to cope with the dehumanization he experiences there. The book is a series of tightly woven poems that play off one another so that the book accumulates tension and energy as it progresses. Daniels treats his characters and their work with re ..."
The Middle Ages(1st Edition) by JimDaniels Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2018 by Red Mountain Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9985140-2-4, ISBN: 0-9985140-2-0
"Poetry. "As prolific as he is talented, Jim Daniels gets my vote for 'the hardest-working man in poetry.' His poems are honest, straightforward, full of insight, wit, and good will, and grounded firmly in the human and humane. THE MIDDLE AGES finds him back at work in the mines of daily life where, as he has done for years, he extracts, for our enjoyment, nugget after nugget, gem after gem."—Charles Harper Webb "Jim Daniels is a master ..."
Street Calligraphy by JimDaniels Paperback, 94 Pages, Published 2017 by Steel Toe Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9863575-3-4, ISBN: 0-9863575-3-7
""In Street Calligraphy, Jim Daniels continues to enchant and transport us across state lines while rooting us in tragic heart lessons and the triumphs of love. These are moving, unflinching poems -- brutal and brave in their pulse to assert that even after a world where "We drew lies with chalk / and the truth with tar. / We lit our hair on fire / to cover the smell," -- there comes a beautiful reassembling of what it means to have peop ..."
Made in Michigan Writers Rowing Inland by JimDaniels 136 Pages, Published 2017 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-4219-0, ISBN: 0-8143-4219-1
"MADE IN MICHIGAN WRITERS SERIES General Editors Michael Delp
Interlochen Center for the Arts M. L. Liebler Wayne State University Advisory
Editors Melba Joyce Boyd Wayne State University Stuart Dybek Western
Michigan University Kathleen Glynn Jerry Herron Wayne State University Laura
Kasischke University of Michigan Thomas Lynch Frank Rashid Marygrove
College Doug Stanton Keith Taylor University of Michigan A complete listing of
t ..."
All of the Above by JimDaniels Paperback, 30 Pages, Published 2011 by Adastra Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9838238-2-7, ISBN: 0-9838238-2-0
"Poetry. Twenty-four poems in nontraditional ghazal form. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes gruesome, the poems build on each other in echoing images and sounds then turn against themselves again and again. As always in a Jim Daniels collection, the reader becomes immersed in his language and the characters that people his poems, then are astonished with where the poem leads the mind. Edition Limited to 250 copies of hand-set Garamond Old S ..."
Now Showing(1st Edition) Poems by JimDaniels Paperback, 36 Pages, Published 2006 by Ahadada Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9781414-1-7, ISBN: 0-9781414-1-5
"And he speaks with that rare urgency that demands we listen." This is affirmed by Carol Muske, who identifies the "melancholy sweetness" running through these poems that identifies him as "a poet born to praise"."
Lives of Service Stories from Maryknoll by JimDaniels Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2001 by Orbis Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57075-308-4, ISBN: 1-57075-308-3
"Lives of Service takes us on an inspiring journey of faith and discovery. Profiles of Maryknoll missioners today -- priests, Sisters, Brothers, and lay people -- show their efforts to live the Gospel and seek the face of God among the diverse cultures and peoples of the world.Their stories include-- A Maryknoll Brother working in Thailand talks about holding "the body of Christ" as an indigent man dies in his arms.-- A Maryknoll priest ..."
Blessing the House(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by JimDaniels Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5636-5, ISBN: 0-8229-5636-5
"Jim Daniels’ Blessing the House visits the sites of domestic faith - Catholic schools, sex and marriage, childbirth - in an attempt to witness a world worth believing in. In their search for hope, grace, and decency in the small dramas of an individual life, these poems become larger, more overtly political and express a genuine interest in human emotion."
Blessing the House by JimDaniels 120 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8007-0, ISBN: 0-8229-8007-X
"Jim Daniels’ Blessing the House visits the sites of domestic faith - Catholic schools, sex and marriage, childbirth - in an attempt to witness a world worth believing in."
M-80(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by JimDaniels Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5497-2, ISBN: 0-8229-5497-4
"Daniels's third book of poems, in which he explores the sharp edges of urban life. His characters struggle for survival against urban violence, racial tension and a crumbling economy. The collection is named after one of the most dangerous fireworks found on city streets."
American Poetry The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) by Gerald Costanzo, JimDaniels Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2000 by Carnegie Mellon ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-343-1, ISBN: 0-88748-343-7
"American Poetry: The Next Generation is an anthology of the following poets, all born since 1960, who have published at least one book with a trade, university, or independent publisher: Rick Agran, Elizabeth Alexander, Sherman Alexie, Rick Alley, Alice Anderson, Daniel Anderson, Talvikki Ansel, Aaron Anstett, Craig Arnold, David Baratier, David Barber, Paul Beatty, Joshua Beckman, Erin Belieu, Molly Bendall, Dina Ben-Lev, Jacqueline Be ..."
"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."