Places/Everyone (Brittingham Prize in Poetry) - Hardcover

Daniels, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299103501 ISBN 13: 9780299103507

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1985

Synopsis

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 of people whose lives are so linked to the ups and downs of the auto industry that they have to struggle to find their own lives; in "Still Lives in Detroit, #2," Daniels writes, "There€™s a man in this picture.  / No one can find him."  The second section contains the "Digger" poems, a series on the lives of a Detroit auto worker and his family which tries to capture the effects of the work on life outside the factory.  Here, we listen to Digger think, dream, wander on psychological journeys while he mo

About this title

About the Author:

Jim Daniels was born in Detroit in 1956 and currently lives in Pittsburgh. He is a recipient of a 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. This book is the recipient of the inaugural Brittingham Prize in Poetry.

Review:

#3, Behind Chatham's Supermarket
5000 Apply For 100 Jobs
After Work
Anita, A New Hire On The Line
Blood Flows Through Steel
Digger Arrives Home From Work
Digger Can't Sleep
Digger Drives To Work
Digger Gets A Dog
Digger Goes Hunting
Digger Goes On Vacation
Digger Has A Dream
Digger Laid Off
Digger Shovels The Snow
Digger Thinks About Numbers
Digger Waters His Lawn
Digger's Daughter's First Date
Digger's Thanksgiving
Elegy For Muncey
Factory Jungle
Factory Love
First Job
For People Who Can't Open Their Hoods
Getting Off Early
A Good Customer
Hard Times In The Motor City
Hold Up
The Man Stuck Between His Shoes
March 17, 1972
May's Poem
Mops
Moving My Grandfather
My Father Worked Late
My Grandfather's Tools
My Mother Walks
No Job
Pee Wee
Places Everyone
Re-cycled Lunchbucket
Real Dancing
The Rubber Finger
Short-order Cook
Snowstorm In Detroit
Still Lives In Detroit: #1, Rome Street
Still Lives In Detroit: #2, Parking Lot, Ford Sterling Plant
Ted's Bar And Grill
Watching My Old House Burn On The News
Wheels
Work Shoes
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0299103501
• ISBN 13: 9780299103507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80