Even the Broken Letters of the Heart Spell Earth (Working Lives Series)

Poetry. Music. Poetry Book & Audio CD. "Daniel Thompson's poems show us how a poet keeps his songs, is kept by his songs, these bread poems, this whiskered baker brother. His poems spell our hearts"—Maj Ragain.

Daniel Thompson (1935-2005) was a fine craftsman and poet laureate of Cuyahoga County in Ohio and was a poet/social activist all his life. He ranged far and near. He stood up for the homeless, the dispossessed. He gave them their daily bread, donated by local bakeries. He sought out the hungry on the streets and stocked the pantry at Saint Herman'S Church. He founded shelters for battered women, along with many other desperate characters who had his number. Daniel also protested nuclear armament in the 1950s; in 1961 he was a freedom rider, jailed in Jackson, Mississippi, then sent to Parchman Farm, a state prison; he was jailed nineteen times, mostly in the South. He marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King.