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Rowing inland : poems / by Jim Daniels.

LIBRA PS3554.A5635 A6 2017
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English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Poetry.
Physical Description:
xiii, 114 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Place of Publication:
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2017]
Summary:
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. Although the book focuses on Detroit's metropolitan area, it can be considered a snapshot of working-class life anywhere across the country. Daniels casts his lens on a way of life that is often distorted or ignored by the powers that be. He zooms in on street level where all the houses may look alike but each holds its own secrets and dreams. Book jacket.
Contents:
  • 1 Rowing Inland
  • Home Improvement 3
  • Rowing Inland 5
  • Swiss Steak 9
  • Wishbone 11
  • Talking by the Fence 12
  • Three Sonnets: Cutting My Grandfather's Grass 14
  • Beware of (My Grandfather's Fake) Dog 16
  • Prayer Above the Washer 17
  • My Mother Recalls the Miracle of the Loaf (No Fish) 18
  • Photo of My Grandparents Working Their Lunch Wagon at the Gates of Dodge Main 20
  • Family Relics: The Suicide Policeman's Blackjack 21
  • Second Shift Closed the Bar 24
  • Reading Dante's Inferno on Break at Ford's 26
  • Laughing from Here 27
  • Room Divider 28
  • Hard Candy 29
  • Last Meals 31
  • 2 Welcome to Warren
  • Welcome to Warren
  • I The Exploding Cigar Tour 35
  • II Around the Block 37
  • III Hidden Beauty 40
  • IV Legendary Parks 45
  • V The Heavy Stuff 48
  • VI The End of Childhood 51
  • 3 Late Invocation for Magic
  • Late Invocation for Magic 55
  • Weeding Out the Weak 59
  • Letter to Andy 60
  • The Monkees, 1968 64
  • "School's Out," Alice Cooper, 1972 66
  • Infamous 68
  • The Unpregnant Pause 70
  • Calling Out Marlene Miller 73
  • Dead Girl 75
  • Homemade Prom Dress 75
  • FOE: Forwarding Order Expired 79
  • 4 Economic Fairy Tale
  • Soft Side of the Moon 87
  • Painting a Picture with Broken Crayons 90
  • Crayola Trailer Park Eight-Pack 91
  • The St. Vitus Dance of the Factory Floor 92
  • Rouge Overpass 94
  • Easter Sunday at Hakim's Convenience 95
  • Something Like a Sonnet for Something Like Peace 97
  • July 20 Fireworks During Ongoing Conflicts Abroad 98
  • Quitting the Day Job in the Middle Age? 102
  • A Game Called Rock 104
  • Christmas Dinner, 2008 105
  • Economic Fairy Tale: The Cement House 106
  • Fifth of July: The Morning After with Lady Liberty 107
  • Summer Weight, Labor Day 109
  • Crooked Teeth 111
  • Homeless Arisen from Dead 113.
ISBN:
  • 9780814342183
  • 0814342183
OCLC:
953843696

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