Jim Daniels’ recent books include Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City and Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry, winner of the Midwest Book Award. His poems have appeared widely in such places as Billy Collins' Poetry 180 anthologies, Best American Poetry anthologies, the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry" series. His poem "Factory Love" is displayed on the roof of a race car. Daniels has garnered such honors as the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, the Tillie Olsen Prize, the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is the Thomas Stockham Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received the Ryan Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Elliott Dunlap Smith Award for Teaching and Educational Service. A native of Detroit, MI, Daniels is a graduate of Alma College and Bowling Green State University. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with his family.
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Contents Poetica No Apologia Arte Kumbaya 4 1. MegaEverything Birth Marks 6 MegaEverything 7 I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem about Jazz 10 The Religious Significance of the Superball 13 Final/Not Final 17 Approaching and Passing an Epiphany 20 The Dark Miracle of Insomnia 22 Lip Gloss, Belgium 24 Hit and Run 26 One Word 28 On Tears 30 Making a Case for the Letter 31 2. Foundation Foundation 34 3. One Arm Raised The Geography of Detroit 43 Company Men 44 Brawl in Front of the House 47 One Arm Raised 50 Feed Corn 52 Record Accumulation 56 Exterior with Quiet 57 Taking the Leap 61 Church Reform 65 Treaty 69 4. Love Poem with Pesticide Love Poem with Pesticide 72 My Two Aunts 73 The Family Price 76 Good Reception 78 45 RPMs: Side A/Side B 81 Laying on of Hands 85 Recreational Trail 86 The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles 88 Watching Another Drug Bust 90 Boxing Toward the Promised Land 92 The Gravity of Math 94 Listening to 96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians While Looking Down on the 95 Panther Hollow Bridge from my Third Floor Window Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor 96 Souvenir 100 Acknowledgments 103 About the Author 104
Contents Poetica No Apologia Arte Kumbaya 4 1. MegaEverything Birth Marks 6 MegaEverything 7 I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem about Jazz 10 The Religious Significance of the Superball 13 Final/Not Final 17 Approaching and Passing an Epiphany 20 The Dark Miracle of Insomnia 22 Lip Gloss, Belgium 24 Hit and Run 26 One Word 28 On Tears 30 Making a Case for the Letter 31 2. Foundation Foundation 34 3. One Arm Raised The Geography of Detroit 43 Company Men 44 Brawl in Front of the House 47 One Arm Raised 50 Feed Corn 52 Record Accumulation 56 Exterior with Quiet 57 Taking the Leap 61 Church Reform 65 Treaty 69 4. Love Poem with Pesticide Love Poem with Pesticide 72 My Two Aunts 73 The Family Price 76 Good Reception 78 45 RPMs: Side A/Side B 81 Laying on of Hands 85 Recreational Trail 86 The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles 88 Watching Another Drug Bust 90 Boxing Toward the Promised Land 92 The Gravity of Math 94 Listening to 96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians While Looking Down on the 95 Panther Hollow Bridge from my Third Floor Window Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor 96 Souvenir 100 Acknowledgments 103 About the Author 104
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