Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

Daniels, Jim

ISBN 10: 1930974159 / ISBN 13: 9781930974159

Published by New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2002

About this Item

The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

Seller Inventory # BVV.1930974159.G

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930974159
• ISBN 13: 9781930974159
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Jim Daniels’ collection bears witness to a life both mis- and well-spent: to the family, remembered and new; to the melancholy pull of drugs and casual sex; to growing up; and to the only tenable way of growing old, which is to embrace every small joy even as one laments its brevity. Indeed, Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars rages not against the dying of light but the dying fall itself―against poetic and existential complacency. “Louder, kids,” says Daniels in the beautiful “Cold Seed:” “daddy’s dying.”

About the Author

JIM DANIELS is the author of Punching Out, Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies, and Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems, among other books and screenplays. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize anthology. His awards include the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. A native of Detroit, Jim Daniels now lives in Pittsburgh. He is the Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches in the creative writing program.