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Gun/shy / Jim Daniels.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daniels, Jim, 1956- author.
- Series:
- Made in Michigan Writers Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Poetry.
- Working class.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (121 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Poems that seek stability in family and community while coping with a country full of conflict and change.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Unwritten Laws of Gravitational Isolation
- 1. Hamburger Surprise
- Sunday Best
- My Mother at the Sewing Machine
- Stuffing the Birds, Carnegie Natural History Museum
- Potato Skins
- Returning the Stones
- My Father Worked 800 Hours of Overtime
- Wasting My Life, 3:00 a.m.
- The New Math
- Bahia Honda, Key West
- I Love Watching Rivers
- Fog on the Turnpike
- Hamburger Surprise
- 2. Street View
- Shouting a Sonnet into Detroit's Dead Microphone
- Searchlights
- Legendary Toads
- The Year of Burning
- Between Double Doors
- On a Personal Level
- Midnight Football
- Harlem Globetrotters, Olympia Stadium
- Abandoned School in the Rain
- Still Life with Phone Booth
- Phone Booth, Eight Mile and Ryan
- Google Maps: Street View
- 3. Gun/Shy
- Gun/Shy
- 4. Leaving the Piano Behind
- Fishing in the Cement Pond
- Strawberries and Mirrors
- My Daughter Turned Thirteen Today
- Private Room
- Test Bomb Fallout
- Poison Control
- Music of the Light Timer
- Leaving the Piano Behind
- Hale Bopp
- 5. The Grand Design
- My Mother Advises Me to Get a Mani/Pedi
- The Wound Doctor
- High School Diploma, 1917
- Declaring Bankruptcy
- First Week Back After Stent
- Annual Checkup with Money Specialist
- Miracles
- Spanning
- The Secret Agent Briefcase
- Honorary Honor
- Property Value
- Neighbor Down on Bridge
- Empty Nest
- Ripe Serviceberries
- Tying My Shoe at the New Pornographers Concert
- Final Miracle Before Retiring from Slowpitch
- The Grand Design
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 1266906172
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